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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: PD SML?
Message-ID: <5184@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Jul 90 15:39:06 GMT
References: <23308@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <2646@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <43283@cornell.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: murthy@algron.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy)

In article <43283@cornell.UUCP>, murthy@algron (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.

I don't think the NJ SML licence is pure copyleft (or pure PD?), to be
honest. It's not copyleft because you *can*, I think, take it and sell
it, as long as you don't mention AT&T's name.

		Nick.
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