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From: killem@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: CLIPS
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.202621.3417@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US>
Date: 16 Nov 90 20:26:21 GMT
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news@cs.utk.edu (USENET News System) writes:

>As a (government) user of CLIPS, I believe that CLIPS is technically
>*NOT* in the public domain, as it is distributed by either NAS/JSC in
>Houston or COSMIC, as the previous posting said.  We are *NOT* permitted
>to distribute CLIPS code "willy-nilly" to our non-government

  From "Expert Systems--Printciples and Programming" by Joseph 
Giarratano and Gary Riley:

pg xvix-xx:

  "The congress has charged NASA with the task of stimulating the 
widest possible use of its new technology in the national 
interest.  NASA seeks to meet that responsibility through its 
Technology Utilization Program, whose ai is to broaden and 
accelerate the technology trasfer process."

  "NASA's mechanism for making sofware technology available to the 
private sector is the Computer Management Software and Information 
Center (COSMIC (tm))."


COSMIC is locate at U. of Georga, where a library of containing 
more than 1,400 programs "for tasks such as structual analysis, 
design of fluid systems, electronic circuit design, chemical 
analyses, determination of building energy requirements, and a 
variety of other functions including artificial intelligence.  
COSMIC  customers can purchase a program for a fractionof its 
original cost..."




The price quoted in the above article does sound right.   
Currently, a fully ADA compatable version is in works (or maybe 
finished by now), so that full compatability with the C version is 
achieved.

>contractors.  For non-gov't users, the $300.00 fee to COSMIC buys the
>source code for the system, and permits the user to use/alter it as
>s/he sees fit.  The user can also distribute *finished products*, but
>not the source or the entire shell, as I understand the arrangements.
>Hence, no FTP-ing, I think.
>Phil Spelt, ORNL
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