PC JOVE IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN (neither is non-pc JOVE)
Ozan Yigit
oz at yetti.UUCP
Sat Feb 8 01:17:46 AEST 1986
In article <3704 at pur-ee.UUCP> davy at pur-ee.UUCP (Dave Curry) writes:
>
>Tim Iverson is quite correct in stating that JOVE is not public domain.
>The following copyright notice appears on all the current source files:
>
>/*************************************************************************
> * This program is copyright (C) 1984,1985,1986 by Jonathan Payne/Unison *
> * World Inc. It is provided to you without charge for use only on a *
> * licensed Unix system. You may copy JOVE provided that this notice *
> * is included with the copy. You may not sell copies of this program *
> * or versions modified for use on microcomputer systems. *
> *************************************************************************/
>
Key phrase here is the *current* source files. The previous ones
DID NOT contain such a notice, and various hacked-up versions
of jove is based on the very original, that was sent around long
before 1984. What is this ??? Regressive copyrighting ??? I am
getting very tired of this nonsense. The latest version Jonathan
has released, and the one coming with 4.3 is out of bounds, for
sure. But anything before that is *not* covered. In fact, if
u-emacs does not turn out to be a superior replacement for
jove, I fully intend to hack an earlier version, replace the
regexp and temp-I/O code (two portions of code that limits
distribution of JOVE) and POST IT TO THE NET. For your info,
Un*x or non-Un*x, rest of the World already GOT jove. You see,
it was included in the DECUS 85 Spring symposium tapes !!!
>Jon checked this summer with the folks at Unison World, and they told him
>it was okay for him to continue to release JOVE to people on "real"
>machines (Vaxes, etc.) since that was not their intended market (micros)
>anyway.
>
Gee.. How nice of them !
Oz
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