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From: chittamu@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Satish Kumar .C)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Sources to RCS needed
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Date: 3 Oct 89 15:45:30 GMT
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Reply-To: chittamu@cs.umass.edu (Satish Kumar .C)
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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

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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