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From: scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve C. Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: libg++ and copylefts
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Date: 19 Jul 89 13:36:33 GMT
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I scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve C. Simmons) write:

>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.

Several people have written to tell me that the default for government
subsidised code is public domain.  I stand corrected.
-- 
Steve Simmons		          scs@vax3.iti.org
Industrial Technology Institute     Ann Arbor, MI.
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