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From: phr@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Paul Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Montgomery EMACS : when did it leave the Public Domain ?
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 07:14:51 EST
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Summary: who cares?  free emacses available.

In article <585@brl-sem.ARPA>, ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) writes:
> It's amazing that ATT wants $900 for source to their EMACS when UniPress
> only wants $995 for source to their far superior version of Gosling's.

Not to point out the obvious but source for GNU Emacs, superior to all
of the above, is FREE.  (I notice Unipress has lowered their prices!)

> An entirely reasonable replacement is JOVE.  I believe this is not
> in the public domain, but available to anyone with a UNIX license

Jove is copyrighted, but its copyright notice says that it can be copied
for noncommercial use.  I remember some restriction about copying it for
microcomputers though.  I think that the authors plan to market a PC version.

> (probably has some fragments of the UNIX regular expression code in it)

It might be possible to replace this code with the corresponding GNU
regular expression code (included with GNU Emacs).  The latter is covered
by the GNU Emacs General Public License, which says that sources of
anything using it must be available for free to everyone.