Subject: Re: The BSD license vs the GPL
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/25/2005 09:22:21
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:55:51PM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
> Charles M. Hannum said:
>=20
> >That's Unipress, and the situation wasn't quite that simple -- in fact, =
it's=20
> >reversed from what you say.  Stallman used much of Gosling Emacs as the =
basis=20
> >for the first version of GNU Emacs, thinking he had Gosling's permission=
. =20
> >However, Gosling had sold his rights to Unipress, and they threatened to=
 sue=20
> >for copyright infringement.  A lot of code was rewritten, and GNU Emacs =
16=20
> >was allegedly clean of Gosling code.
>=20
> Yup. Unipress, the brain gets old. At one time I had the original Emacs=
=20
> running on top of TECO on an Amiga 2000.

OHHHHHH.... What OS?

	-is

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