Re: Looking for public core databases

• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 07:48:01 PDT
• From:
  Jay Carlson <nop@ccs.neu.edu>
• cc: moo-cows@parc.xerox.com, nop@k2.ccs.neu.edu
• In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Sep 1995 16:05:55 PDT." <JTOURT31.950919190555@maine.maine.EDU>

> One comment on JHCore: Does anyone else find the copyright a bit far
> reaching?  I ask because I am not exactly sure what it means.

Here's what `help core-copyright' says: 

| Portions of this database are derived from the LambdaCore
| distribution, available for anonymous ftp at parcftp.xerox.com.  The
| following copyright notice applies to new and derived works within
| this database.

This says that the following copyright notice only applies to
JHcore-specific things in LambdaCore; since NOBODY KNOWS what the
copyright status of LambdaCore is, this is the best we can do.

| Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 by Ken Fox.

People who did work on JHcore transfered copyright to Ken because we
were too lazy to form JHM Incorporated.

|                        All Rights Reserved
|
| Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its 
| documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, 
| provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
| both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in 
| supporting documentation.
| 
| KEN FOX DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING
| ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL
| KEN FOX BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR
| ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
| WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION,
| ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS
| SOFTWARE.

This is lifted almost directly from the DEC/MIT copyright on X11.
Basically, you can do anything with this code as long as you keep this
copyright notice around.

Jay Carlson
nop@io.com    nop@ccs.neu.edu    nop@kagoona.mitre.org

Flat text is just *never* what you want.   ---stephen p spackman

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