Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!tank!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: History & Origin of EMACS ? Message-ID: <713@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 10 Nov 88 00:00:29 GMT References: <225@ncelvax.UUCP> Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Reply-To: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) Organization: Fort Mudge Perloo and Fire Brigade Lines: 19 In-reply-to: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Charles Hedrick writes: ) You'll want to look carefully at the Gnu license to see whether your ) organization can live with it. (It basically requires you to make ) source available, though you can charge for distributing it.) No no no no NO!!! If you have a copy of GNU emacs or any other FSF software, you are NOT required to give copies to anyone! The true condition is that IF you give anyone a BINARY copy, you have to make SOURCE available to them also, and anyone to whom you give any copy must be permitted to give away copies of that copy. Sheesh, I thought the license terms were perfectly clear, and I never even went to law school. Matt "Yes, success is dangerous.. Build a better mousetrap today and the world will beat you into a psychopath before you can reach the door." - Porkypine