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From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Montgomery's Emacs
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Date: Sat, 14-Dec-85 21:53:00 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.
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This would all depend on who was the holder of the copyright.  The
distribution by an unauthorized third party would not have any effect
on the validity of the copyright.

-- 
scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
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