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From: pallas@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Joe Pallas)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: PD SML?
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.180609.18214@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 13 Jul 90 18:06:09 GMT
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In <43283@cornell.UUCP> murthy@algron.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy) writes:

>But even though it costs thousands of dollars, AT&T is putting it into
>the copylefted domain.  Not the public domain, where anybody and her
>brother can steal it, but certainly available to anybody that wants it.

Just for the record, SML's copyright is NOT the GNU copyleft.  The SML
copyright is like the MIT X copyright---no removing the copyright
notice, no warrantees, no using AT&T's name without permission, and NO
OTHER RESTRICTIONS!

It is genuine free software.