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From: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
Newsgroups: net.lang.st80,net.works
Subject: Smalltalk 80 license question
Message-ID: <2304@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Sep-83 14:46:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 21 14:46:12 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Sep-83 15:30:02 EDT
Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto
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We've obtained the license forms from Xerox for the Smalltalk virtual image
and it seems to say that all ST80 programs written with the system belong
to Xerox.  Has anyone else made this interpretation of the license, and if
so, how have they reacted to it?  Is such a clause enforceable?

peter rowley,  University of Toronto Department of C.S., Ontario Canada M5S 1A4
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