Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!tj
From: tj@mks.UUCP (T. J. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Source Control System for PC
Summary: RCS Copyright, NOT PD
Message-ID: <484@mks.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 88 23:09:04 GMT
References: <774@taurus.BITNET> <65100044@cdp>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 21

In article <65100044@cdp>, jeff@cdp.UUCP writes:
> 
> The source code for the original version of RCS was released in the public
> domain, if I recall correctly.

Unless this release was a very recent event, you do NOT recall correctly.
Quoting from the source which MKS licensed from Mr. Tichy:

 * Copyright (C) 1982 by Walter F. Tichy
 *		       Purdue University
 *		       Computer Science Department
 *		       West Lafayette, IN 47907
 *
 * All rights reserved. No part of this software may be sold or distributed
 * in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the
 * author.
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