Re: [Lynx-dev] Old Lynx - copyright status?

[Patrick]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:23:29 -0400 (EDT)
Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Patrick wrote:
> 
> > I managed to find a copy of Lynx 2.0.9 some time ago, from 1992,

Sorry, 1993.  I was looking at the copyright date, not the
CHANGES file.

> > on the FilWatcher FTP search engine.  Won't compile for me [*many*
> > warnings, then a fatal error], but may be of historical interest
> > to some.  The source tarball is also just below 50webs' 500k
> > per-file limit, so I could put it there.
> >
> > However, this version was released before it was placed under the
> > GPL.  So... whose permission do I need?  Do I need permission, or
> > has it already been given?
> 
> Does it have a README, or something like that?  (I'd grep for "Kansas").

Yes, but that describes how to use it, not what you're allowed to
do with it.

(C) 1992 Lou Montulli, University of Kansas -- with a lot of
material by Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac, and others too I'm
sure.  A lot of the documentation may belong to the University of
Kansas, because it describes their CWIS [as it was in 1993 at
least].

That's a lot of permission, so I'd hoped for a simple answer
here, if anyone remembers that far back.  Oh well.  Guess I'll
start asking around...



Patrick.
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