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From: ralph@brueer.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Are all kermits public domain?
Message-ID: <337@brueer.ee.brunel.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 24-Jun-86 09:35:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 24 09:35:51 1986
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Reply-To: ralph@ee.brunel.ac.uk (Ralph Mitchell)
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In article <1984@dalcs.UUCP> silvert@dalcs.UUCP writes:
>There is some confusion here about whether the kermit in the developer's
>kit is in the public domain.  The manual seems to say it is (right on
>the title page), but we would like to make sure before passing it on to
>anyone else.
>


I think I'm right in saying that Kermit is not public domain, but is 
copyright Columbia University.  Columbia's policy is that anyone using
or writing a Kermit should make it available to others on request for
no charge (except for postage/handling/media costs).  This policy may
even extend to the sources.  As I see it, you should be able to pass
the binary on to anyone, provided you don't sell it.  Perhaps Neil@Atari
could clarify this ??

BTW, The Columbia CP/M Kermit distribution includes a 'Generic' version
that works on any CP/M machine that uses the I/O byte properly.  I have
run it under the ST CP/M emulator with no problem at all...  It's actually
a damn sight more friendly than the Dev Kit Kermit and it runs at about
the same speed  :-) :-)  I guess the limiting factor is disk access time.
Anyone wanna copy ??  I also picked up a PD 8080 assembler and hex loader
from the Kermit distribution.  They also work fine under the Emulator...

Ralph Mitchell
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