Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!kolling From: kolling@decwrl.UUCP (Karen Kolling) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: "Gosling-free" emacs and unipress Message-ID: <3134@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 15:02:39 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3134 Posted: Tue Jul 16 15:02:39 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 06:03:16 EDT Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Los Altos, CA Lines: 18 Since the original version of GNUEmacs was announced as being in the public domain, and that later turned out to be questionable, I thought it prudent to ask Unipress their position on the new "Gosling-free" GNUEmacs before getting a copy of it. Unipress told me that they would not give our site anything in writing allowing us to use GNUEmacs (even though we've already paid the Unipress emacs fees) and are "reserving the right to sue if people use this version, because Stallman wrote it looking at Gosling's code." Unipress has in the past told me that they own all the Gosling emacs code; during this phone conversation, however, they said that Gosling could issue a release for people to use this new version of emacs. I sent mail to Gosling, but didn't get a reply. Since Unipress used net.emacs to make their position clear about the previous versions of GNUEmacs, I believe it's appropriate for them or Gosling to use it to make their position clear on the present version. Karen (kolling@decwrl.arpa or {decvax, ihnp4}!decwrl!kolling)