Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!rms@mit-prep From: rms@mit-prep Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Permission Message-ID: <4486@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 01:42:32 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4486 Posted: Tue Jun 18 01:42:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Jun-85 03:30:30 EDT Sender: daemon@mit-eddi.UUCP Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 From: Richard M. Stallman Fen Labalme got permission from Gosling in a message several years ago. I'm told that this is legally binding on Gosling. This was before Unipress was involved in distributing Gosling Emacs and therefore Unipress has no direct knowledge about the question. Megatest uses that old Gosling Emacs (what Fen gave me originally) in its IC test systems. Fen says that Megatest's lawyers tell him they can defend his permission in court if it were necessary. However, we don't expect it to be necessary. We don't think Unipress wants to sue anyone. It would be a shame if people refrain from using GNU Emacs because of a hypothetical suit that would not win and that won't happen. It's a shame that it is so hard to PROVE that someone won't sue someone else. However, we are working on it.