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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
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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
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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)