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Subject: Montgomery's Emacs
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Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 05:13:28 EST
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From: rms@prep.ai.mit.edu (Richard M. Stallman)
I know that Montgomery for some time distributed free the Emacs
that he wrote.  I do not know for certain that
the copies did not say Copyright AT&T, but I suspect they did not,
because Zimmerman would probably not have modified it and
redistributed it if it had had a copyright notice.

If this is so, that version went irreversibly into the public
domain and AT&T can no longer have the government's
help in interfering with people who want to share it.

Don't trust AT&T's statements on this, any more than you would
listen to your landlord's advice about your rights as a tenant.
Instead, look for someone with an old copy and find out whether the copy
came with a copyright notice.