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From: darin@taurus.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CLIPS ON THE AMIGA
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Date: 14 Dec 88 02:10:54 GMT
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>I would be highly surprised if it is a licensed package.  The reason is
>that unless a piece of software is CLASSIFIED or is considered SENSITIVE
>(as it relates to national security), software developed at any governament
>laboratory and supported by taxpayers money is automatically PUBLIC
>DOMAIN.  Anything else is just hogwash!
>-- 
>					-+= SAM =+-
>				ARPA: paolucci@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov

I don't have the docs with me, but I do recall there are some
restrictions; mainly, government and government contractors get it free,
all else pay minor fees (presumably shipping, etc. - I wouldn't want to
send out floppies to everyone who asks...).

Also, I did make a stab at porting it, but I didn't have that much luck.
I added Amiga specific routines (time, system, etc.) and everything
compiled nicely, but it didn't run quite right.  When I tested it with
the monkeys and banana program, it had oddball things like "The monkey
jumps off of the ceiling onto the box".  I haven't worked with it
further, since I didn't have any specific application in mind.

Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com)
	"It's true, the world's not perfect...  But we've submitted an SPR"