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From: william@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (William Cheng)
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Subject: Re: export contrib procedure?
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Date: 5 May 91 23:25:48 GMT
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In article <050591.123122.dan@watson.ibm.com> dan@watson.ibm.COM (Walt Daniels) writes:
>One more thing on the wish list for contributors:
>Please include a notice about restrictions. I suggest the
>standard MIT X windows copyright and licensing agreement
>with the names changed suitably. Or a clear statement that
>it is in the Public Domain and hence completely unrestricted.
>             -------------
>
>Without something like the above many people CANNOT touch your
>contribution and many would not if they had any advice from a lawyer.

Are these programs in the contrib directory "FreeWare" instead of
"Public Domain Software".  I thought being Public Domain means that
it has NO copyright, and I believe that most of these software do
have copyrights.
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