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From: jih@usl.UUCP (Juha I. Heinanen)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Permission
Message-ID: <570@usl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 09:38:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 09:38:43 1985
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Reply-To: jih@usl.UUCP (Juha I. Heinanen)
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Organization: USL, Lafayette, LA
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Summary: 

The discussion about various permits to distribute Unix based
software brought to my mind the days when I filled applications for
educational licenses for Unix Versions 6 and 7.  I still clearly
remember that in order to get such a license I had to state in the
application that the machine will be used for teaching and research
purposes only and that the results of the research (including the
code) had to be made publicly available.  The impression I got was
that development of commercial software and an educational license
don't mix and that if we were ever going to sell any of our code, the
very first line of it had to be written on a purely commercial
machine.

Have the things changed since those days?  Is it now ok to charge
more than a handling fee or to sumbit the software to a commercial
distributor such as Unipress in order to add value to it?  If not, I
would like to know how many purely commercial 4.x Unix systems CMU
had when James wrote his Emacs and which one he used; or maybe he
really did all the development in a company down the street?  What
about Amsterdam Compiler Kit, another product of Unipress whose early
versions were distributed for a nominal cost by EUUG?

I have nothing againsts James or the folks at Amsterdam and I very
well understand their motives in submitting the whole thing to a
company that frees them from the hassle and maybe even improves the
product.  But IF the software was developed on a machine with an
educational Unix license, can the company be nothing else than a
distributor of public domain software?  (Henry, are you listening
this group?)
-- 
                              Juha Heinanen

USL, P.O. Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-433, tel. (318)231-5345
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