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From: mohamed@hscfvax.UUCP (750025@Mohamed_el_Lozy)
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Subject: Re: COPYRIGHT NOTICES (on program sources, of course)
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 11:56:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 11:56:05 1987
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References: <6236@brl-smoke.ARPA> <25095@sun.uucp> <12133@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <357@mcdsun.UUCP> <2267@xanth.UUCP>
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Summary: DEC includes gnuemacs in 2.0 distrib

In article <2267@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
>In article <357@mcdsun.UUCP> fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
>.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .  I gave a copy of the "COPYING"
>> file to our lawyer, who studied it in some detail and then pronounced
>> that if we included it, it would require us to give away the source
>> to ALL of Uniplus+.
>
>Amazing, especially since Berkeley distributed GNU Emacs with 4.3 BSD.

The current 2.0 release of Ultrix also contains a gnuemacs tar file.
Since DEC lawyers are certainly careful they must have concluded
that it was safe to do so.

Of course, if they are wrong, that might put all of Ultrix in the
public domain!!!!!

On the other hand, the gnuemacs distribution is on the unsupported
software tape, which I believe does not contain any proprietary
software.  So perhaps there is indeed a problem.