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From: warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Montgomery EMACS : when did it leave the Public Domain ?
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Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 14:37:14 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 17 14:37:14 1985
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Summary: I don't have lisp

Paul Rubin:
> Ron Natalie:
> > 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!)
I looked at a GNU source, it was in lisp.  I don't have lisp.  Is there
a C version?  If so, how do I get it?

> > 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.

Well how did those who have Jove get it?  How can I?

Thanks.
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