Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!udel!nelson From: nelson@udel.EDU (Mark Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: PD or Shareware Copyrights Message-ID: <18501@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 26 Jun 89 15:18:21 GMT References: <18195@louie.udel.EDU> <18280@louie.udel.EDU> <18366@louie.udel.EDU> <18101@usc.edu> Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Reply-To: nelson@udel.EDU (Mark Nelson) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 27 In article shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: [Discussion of copyrighting your own version of Emacs, and whether [it would then be based on GNU Emacs, which is not PD, deleted. > >All he said was "something PD like EMACS", not "Micro-Emacs" or any >other specific version, so I made not of the fact the GNU Emacs (the >original Emacs [or if not, I challenge you to show me the version of >Emacs than GNU Emacs was based on] (not I bet you will, too... >*sigh*)) is NOT PD. Actually, I guess you could be right; GNU Emacs >could have been based on some system's editor, but I've NEVER heard >such a thing said. (but then, gcc is definitely modelled (externally) >after your "standard" Unix cc...) > The original, granddady of them all Emacs was written by Richard Stallman for a PDP-10 running the ITS operating system at MIT. It started as a collection of macros for the TECO editor (the MIT version of TECO, not the bowdlerized version from DEC). Hence Emacs from Editor MACros. So you can be pretty sure that any Emacs running on the Amiga shares zero code with the original :-). I don't know for sure if this Emacs was PD, but I suspect it was. Mark Nelson ...!rutgers!udel!nelson or nelson@udel.edu This function is occasionally useful as an argument to other functions that require functions as arguments. -- Guy Steele