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From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: History & Origin of EMACS ?
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Date: 10 Nov 88 22:54:47 GMT
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In-reply-to: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)

Me:
) >If you have a copy of GNU emacs or any other FSF
) >software, you are NOT required to give copies to anyone!

Charles Hedrick:
) But the question came from somebody who was looking into delivering
) Emacs to customers as part of a procurement contract.  This seems to
) imply that they are going to be giving people binary copies, so I
) think the requirement to make source available will apply to them.

The question came from someone at the "Naval Civil Engineering Research
Labs", which sounded to me like an end user, not a vendor.  If you know
otherwise, I defer.  But there are vendors, DEC and Encore, for example,
who supply GNU emacs with systems.  They include source on the tape.

				Matt