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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: libg++ and copylefts
Message-ID: <9637@alice.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 89 03:33:00 GMT
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In article <2219@itivax.iti.org>, scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve C. Simmons) writes:

> And government subsidised code is not automaticly PD.  I believe NSF
> (National Science Foundation) subsidised code is, but that's not where
> g++ or oopslib came from.

However, all the OOPS (now called NIH Class Library) source code I've
seen has prominent proclamations at the front of each source file
to the effect that it is public domain and anyone may use it
for any purpose.  [I guess we already paid for it...]
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				--Andrew Koenig
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