Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-cad.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-cad!mjc From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Re: Gosling Emacs Message-ID: <346@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 16:21:32 EDT Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-c.346 Posted: Sun Jun 30 16:21:32 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 04:46:08 EDT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 12 The right to USE a piece of code does not grant the right to DISTRIBUTE (or even look at!) the source. Commercial software sellers grant you a licence to use their system, rather than selling you the system, for just this reason. What this probably implies (I'm not a lawyer either...) is that Gosling has to make the compiled program available for use (if this is what the AT&T license agreement says). This does not grant you permission to look at the source, much less use it in a system of your own. -Dragon -- UUCP: ...ucbvax!dual!lll-crg!dragon ARPA: monica.cellio@cmu-cs-cad or dragon@lll-crg