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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: SEA files against pkarc author
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Date: 17 Jun 88 20:03:53 GMT
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In article <4740@hoptoad.uucp> pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar) writes:
%bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) wrote:
%> As I understand it, ARC was written in a bastardized C;
%   If you mean that the code was poorly written, then your
%   right.
Hear, hear. But what the hell, it works.
%
%> and I thought the source was put into public domain when
%> the various Unix /etc. ports came out. 
%   It was never put into the public domain.  The unix ports I
%   have seen were taken from the source that Thom sold as a
%   seperate item from the ARC binaries.  As soon as the source
%   became available, people ported it over to UNIX.
Are you absolutely certain that Thom was *selling* the source
code? I also thought the source was public domain. If not, then
Keith Peterson @ Simtel, as well as many other people, have a
few files to clean off their systems... It would seem that SEA
would've tried to put a stop to the source code distribution,
long long ago, if it was not public domain.

This raises some interesting questions for me, since I've been
sitting on the sources for ARC 5.21 for Unix for a couple weeks
now. Can I submit them to one of the sources groups? Will they
get posted? Should they be posted? Would someone get in trouble
because they were posted? Would that someone be me? ( }-)  )
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