PC JOVE IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN (neither is non-pc JOVE)
Greg Wohletz
greg at unlv.UUCP
Tue Feb 11 20:59:48 AEST 1986
In article <320 at yetti.UUCP> oz at yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes:
>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 !
Get this discussion the hell out of net.sources! Followups will go to net.emacs
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