Subject: Re: The BSD license vs the GPL
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/24/2005 23:55:51
Charles M. Hannum said:
>That's Unipress, and the situation wasn't quite that simple -- in fact, it's
>reversed from what you say. Stallman used much of Gosling Emacs as the basis
>for the first version of GNU Emacs, thinking he had Gosling's permission.
>However, Gosling had sold his rights to Unipress, and they threatened to sue
>for copyright infringement. A lot of code was rewritten, and GNU Emacs 16
>was allegedly clean of Gosling code.
Yup. Unipress, the brain gets old. At one time I had the original Emacs
running on top of TECO on an Amiga 2000. There were a bunch of versions of
Emacs at one time or another on various operating systems.
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