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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Public Domain Version of NCAR Sourc
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Date: 13 Oct 89 00:32:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Oct 12 19:32:00 1989


>In article <20371@usc.edu> annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala) writes:
>   I have heard rumour of the existence of a somewhat dated version of
>   the ncar graphics package that may be classified as a public domain.

We still have the old release. I certainly never saw any copyright
notices on it. If it wasn't public domain, it certainly was 
freely distributable - and in any case, if they thought it was
copyright, they never tried enforcing it.

However, it was the most horribly written code I have ever seen.
Truly awful, The worst abuse of so-called Fortran I have ever seen
Terrible. Badly designed. Badly implemented. Some of the algorithms
were ok though.

Doug McDonald