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From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: On the PublicDomain-ness of Gosling Emacs
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 03:30:35 EST
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> From: "Neville D. Newman" <NEVILLE%umass-cs.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
>       James Gosling's Emacs done at CMU...This is a horse of an entirely
> different flavor, and according to Gosling himself no part of it is really
> in the public domain.  That is to say that while he did give away and support
> early versions, he did not authorize random redistribution.

This is not *quite* true.  During the Salt Lake City Usenix I approached
James about putting the regular expression code from his Emacs into the
public domain.  (We wanted to use it in the uucp mail routing software.)
He wrote out a little statement that we could have the code and redistribute it
to anybody, and signed it.  Quote:

	"The Usenix/UUCP project has my permission to use the regular
	 expression pattern matcher from EMACS.  James Gosling, 6/14/84"

So the regular expression code from Gosling Emacs is in the public domain,
but the rest of it is not.  (I checked this today with James and he agrees.)