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From: randy@NCIFCRF.GOV
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Reprise: If Emacs is a text editor, Unix is a C compiler
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Date: 4 Apr 88 15:50:56 GMT
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> (I think $150 from the Free Software Foundation).  If either will do
> what you want, GnuEmacs is good if you want a free Emacs or if you
> want real Lisp; UniPress Emacs is good if you don't mind paying
> (it's $395 binary+MLisp source, $995 for that plus C-source), or if
> you want someone to be accountable for fixing any bugs you find, or
> if you want to embed it in a commercial product (the Gnu license
> forbids the latter).  

    Quick clarification: The GNU license does *not* forbid embedding
  gnu-emacs in a commercial product.  What it does say is that if you
  ship gnu-emacs with your operating system, you must either 1) Ship
  the source code, or 2) Make your customers aware that they can get
  the source code for a *small* (tape handling) fee.  (You also cannot
  restrict redistribution *of gnu-emacs itself*).  If you develop
  a program starting from the gnu-emacs code, it stays covered by the
  provisions I mentioned above, but other software shipped with
  gnu-emacs does not.

> Also, unlike FSF, we LIKE NeWS.

    Now *that* is a major plus for Unipress!

> ------
> Mike Gallaher
> Emacs Hacker Boss
> UniPress Software

					-- Randy Smith

    (I in no official way speak for Freesoft and the above simply
  represents my understanding of the situation.  If you are interested
  in doing this, talk to them and their lawyers.  If you need to sue
  somebody over what I've said, sue me, not them)

  Randy Smith    @	NCI Supercomputer Facility
  c/o PRI, Inc.		Phone: (301) 698-5660                  
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