Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!m2c!umvlsi!chittamu From: chittamu@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Satish Kumar .C) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Sources to RCS needed Message-ID: <454@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 15:45:30 GMT References: <5045@shlump.nac.dec.com> <2527DB32.47F4@drivax.UUCP> Reply-To: chittamu@cs.umass.edu (Satish Kumar .C) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 38 In article <2527DB32.47F4@drivax.UUCP> frotz@drivax.UUCP writes: >nadkarni@ashok.dec.com writes: > >>Does anyone know if there is a PD port of RCS to MS-DOS ? If so, where >>is it available ? > >>Thanks, > >>/Ashok Nadkarni > >My understanding is that Walter Tichy (author) retains the copyright >to RCS. There is an MKS port of RCS to MS-DOS that is licensed with >Walter, but he retains the copyright... It is my conjecture (from >various rumors) that the MKS license is a non-exclusive right to >market RCS, presumably world-wide... > I have included part of the comments from Walt Tichy's sources for RCS below ====== RCS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version. RCS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the iGNU General Public License for more details. ====== As you can see, RCS *is* free and available in the public domain. The sources can be ftp'ed from cs.purdue.edu ( anonymous ftp) They can be found in the directory ~/pub/RCS. -- -Satish. chittamu@cs.umass.edu