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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.1/1.2 Console Driver Bug...
Message-ID: <450@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 11:05:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.450
Posted: Wed Jun 25 11:05:01 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jun-86 05:19:08 EDT
References: <45@mit-prep.ARPA>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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> and useful features have been added. It annoyed me a bit, though,
> that Commodore put their copyright on the public domain version
> of MicroEMACS. I find this rather tasteless. Fortunately, their
> version doesn't seem to be any better than v30 with intuition
> driver.

The version of MicroEMACS has a copyright notice because its copyrighted.
It descended from an old version of a public-domain MicroEmacs, I think it
was called 0.1.  Andy Finkel here at Commodore made extensive modifications
to the program to the point where it is certainly a different program.  If
a program's in the public domain, you're free to use parts or all of it in
your own program, whether commercial or another freebie.  If the program 
were instead copyrighted shareware or something like that, then Andy would
most likely have had to seek permission from the original author.


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