scott@scirtp.UUCP (Scott Crenshaw) (12/09/85)
What is the last 'legal' public
domain version of Montgomery EMACS ?
Thanks,
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Scott Crenshaw {akgua,decvax}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp
SCI Systems , Inc. Research Triangle Park, NC
The views represented may or may not be those of my employer.ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (12/11/85)
> > What is the last 'legal' public > domain version of Montgomery EMACS ? > > Thanks, According to ATT there never was a public domain copy. Only leaked copies. This came about over a furor about Zimmerman's CCA EMACS. It's amazing that ATT wants $900 for source to their EMACS when UniPress only wants $995 for source to their far superior version of Gosling's. An entirely reasonable replacement is JOVE. I believe this is not in the public domain, but available to anyone with a UNIX license (probably has some fragments of the UNIX regular expression code in it) -Ron
phr@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Paul Rubin) (12/12/85)
In article <585@brl-sem.ARPA>, ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) writes: > It's amazing that ATT wants $900 for source to their EMACS when UniPress > only wants $995 for source to their far superior version of Gosling's. Not to point out the obvious but source for GNU Emacs, superior to all of the above, is FREE. (I notice Unipress has lowered their prices!) > An entirely reasonable replacement is JOVE. I believe this is not > in the public domain, but available to anyone with a UNIX license Jove is copyrighted, but its copyright notice says that it can be copied for noncommercial use. I remember some restriction about copying it for microcomputers though. I think that the authors plan to market a PC version. > (probably has some fragments of the UNIX regular expression code in it) It might be possible to replace this code with the corresponding GNU regular expression code (included with GNU Emacs). The latter is covered by the GNU Emacs General Public License, which says that sources of anything using it must be available for free to everyone.
hansen@pegasus.UUCP (Tony L. Hansen) (12/12/85)
< What is the last 'legal' public domain version of Montgomery EMACS ? Montgomery's Emacs never entered the public domain. It has always been proprietary software of AT&T. Source licenses for Montgomery's Emacs are available from the UNIX System Toolchest (dial 201-522-6900 and login as guest). Tony Hansen ihnp4!pegasus!hansen
mg@unirot.UUCP (mg @ The Soup Kitchen) (12/13/85)
In article <11216@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, phr@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Paul Rubin) writes: > > Not to point out the obvious but source for GNU Emacs, superior to all > of the above, is FREE. (I notice Unipress has lowered their prices!) > What prices do you mean? The only price I know of that was lowered was for PCDOS Emacs, for IBMPC and clones, which certainly can't compete with Gnumacs. mg
warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein) (12/17/85)
Paul Rubin: > Ron Natalie: > > It's amazing that ATT wants $900 for source to their EMACS when UniPress > > only wants $995 for source to their far superior version of Gosling's. > > Not to point out the obvious but source for GNU Emacs, superior to all > of the above, is FREE. (I notice Unipress has lowered their prices!) I looked at a GNU source, it was in lisp. I don't have lisp. Is there a C version? If so, how do I get it? > > An entirely reasonable replacement is JOVE. I believe this is not > > in the public domain, but available to anyone with a UNIX license > > Jove is copyrighted, but its copyright notice says that it can be copied > for noncommercial use. I remember some restriction about copying it for > microcomputers though. I think that the authors plan to market a PC version. > > > (probably has some fragments of the UNIX regular expression code in it) > > It might be possible to replace this code with the corresponding GNU > regular expression code (included with GNU Emacs). The latter is covered > by the GNU Emacs General Public License, which says that sources of > anything using it must be available for free to everyone. Well how did those who have Jove get it? How can I? Thanks. -- The Maxwell R. Mayhem Institute for Quandary Requiem and Maternal Sciamachy Accept no substitutes.