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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU & Permissions
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 01:51:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 01:51:18 1985
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Uh-oh.  Here we go again...

I did get (by EMail) what I felt constituted permission from Gosling
to distribute the display driver that is in the Maryland Windows stuff.
In fact, I even saved the mail; here is the relevant portion:

	Date: 29 May 1983 14:50-EST
	From: James.Gosling@CMU-CS-VLSI.ARPA
	Subject: Re: Windows

	I'm perfectly happy to have you remove my copyright from the version of
	display.c that you've heavily modified.

(Note that the previous paragraph is complete and in context (since
there was no context...).)

The only reason I didn't do so is that I feel that he should
certainly be credited as the inspiration (at the very least) for
the code.  (The algorithm that finds the minimal cost update to
the screen is pretty much intact, though most of the supporting
structure has changed, in that version of display.c.)

Whether this proves anything one way or another, or has any legal
standing, I don't know.
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