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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Is the Minix shell considered PD?
Message-ID: <7092@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 21:40:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: g.7092
Posted: Thu Aug 13 21:40:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 11:50:08 EDT
References: <434@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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Summary: YES IT IS

In article <434@louie.udel.EDU> rowley@orville.arpa (Karl Rowley) writes:
>Is the Minix shell that was distributed on the net recently considered to be 
>in the public domain?  It looks like it would make a nice shell for the 
>Atari ST.  If someone were to port this shell to the Atari ST, could they then
>distribute it to others as public domain software?

The program was distributed without copyright by the author to a very large
number of people.  By definition, this makes it public domain.

I applaud Andy's efforts.  I'd have bought his book by now, but I haven't
seen it in the bookstores yet.

Sean

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