PC JOVE IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN (neither is non-pc JOVE)

[Greg Wohletz]

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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