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- From: dandrews@bilver.uucp (Dave Andrews)
- Subject: Re: Date first placed into public domain ?
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:18:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.141801.13601@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1680@sousa.ltn.dec.com> <1992Sep3.172442.3466@hal.com>
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- In article <1992Sep3.172442.3466@hal.com> bobp@hal.com (Bob Pendelton) writes:
- >From article <1680@sousa.ltn.dec.com>, by secrist@kxovax.enet.dec.com (Strong datatypes for weak minds.):
- >>
- >> When was XLISP first placed into the public domain ?
- >
- >This is the copyright notice from the version of xlisp distributed in
- >the winterp package. This software is not "public domain." But it is
- >freely usable.
-
- Um, I don't think David Betz established copyright prior to version
- 1.7 -- the last PD version was incorporated into a well known CAD
- package without acknowledgement, and that sort of forced the issue
- upon him.
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- - David Andrews Windows N<o>T
- dandrews@bilver.oau.org
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