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From: kgorlen@alw.nih.gov (Keith Gorlen)
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Subject: Re: NIH library
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Date: 12 Jun 91 02:08:48 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.021830.7717@njitgw.njit.edu>, hp6713@mars.njit.edu (Himanshu N. Pandit) writes:
|> This afternoon someone left a message on my answering machine
|> regarding NIH library copyright. It seems to me that some misunderstanding
|> has been created when I wrote - free of copyright and free of cost.
|> 
|> What I meant by free is that there is no legal agreement that one has to sign
|> before logging into this account.  There is however a prescribed legal set of 
|> copyright agreement which can be obtained from NIH.
|> 
|> I hope this clarifies the matter. Thanks.
|> 
|> Himanshu

The following applies to the NIH Class Library, unless noted otherwise
in the source file:

	THIS SOFTWARE FITS THE DESCRIPTION IN THE U.S. COPYRIGHT ACT OF A
	"UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WORK".  IT WAS WRITTEN AS A PART OF THE
	AUTHOR'S OFFICIAL DUTIES AS A GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE.  THIS MEANS IT
	CANNOT BE COPYRIGHTED.  THIS SOFTWARE IS FREELY AVAILABLE TO THE
	PUBLIC FOR USE WITHOUT A COPYRIGHT NOTICE, AND THERE ARE NO
	RESTRICTIONS ON ITS USE, NOW OR SUBSEQUENTLY.

An exception to this are the files lib/regex.h and lib/regex/regex.c.,
which are Copyright (C) 1985 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  See these
files for the terms and conditions governing this software.


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