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From: trevor@GRASP.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Trevor Darrell)
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Subject: NeWS PostScript extensions
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Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 17:26:27 EDT
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   From: "Daniel L. Cerys" <Cerys@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU>
   >SUN held a NeWS technical seminar near Boston last week where they
   >described what could be done.  Of course, if you aren't using their
   >sources, you can do anything you want; SUN doesn't have any claim to
   >Postscript protocols. 

What do they mean ``PostScript protocol''? Adobe's red book or their
_NeWS_Manual_? Do they lay any claim to their extensions to the
PostScript langauge?  To make the subject even more touchy, are they
going to put their class facility in the public domain? If not I don't
think they can call it part of PostScript. Sun-Specific-PostScript
perhaps, but not part of any PostScript standard. I would like to
be able to use the class facility, which I consider fantastic, in
all my PostScript work, not just in NeWS-specific code, and not
worry about distribution rights.

It seems to me Sun has been holding back on clarification of these 
legal issues. (aside from copyright notices)

--trevor