info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/04/85)
From: sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki) There are several groups working on porting GNU EMACS from UNIX to VMS. I am only one of these folks and I have lots of other things that need to be done first, others will have the ports done before I finish mine. GNU EMACS is a public domain EMACS and is available on many ARPA and UUCP sites. GNU EMACS run very well (comparable speed to CCA and Gosling's) but is very large. When it has been ported to VMS, there won't be much reason to buy CCA or UNIPRESS EMACS. Marty Sasaki
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/04/85)
From: Ron Natalie <ron@BRL.ARPA> FOO, don't expect that GNU EMACS is really in the public domain. UNIPRESS seems rather annoyed that there are large portions of it that are marked copyright James Gosling. -Ron
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/05/85)
From: sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki) I was afraid of something like this (ie, the copyright James Gosling stuff). The tape also distributes source to dbx. I've been deleting it when I pass it on unless I know that the site has a source licence. What to do? Maybe RMS will settle all of this? Marty Sasaki
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/05/85)
From: Ron Natalie <ron@BRL.ARPA> Actually, I heard that RMS was whining about the whole matter. -Ron