Facts please

[Graham Bassett]

According to Sam Williams, 'Free as in Freedom Richard Stallman's Crusade
for Free Software' Stallman "says he began to sense the beneficial nature of
copyright sometime around the release of Emacs 15.0, the last significant
pre-GNU Project upgrade of Emacs."  p. 123

Shortly after he produced the Emacs 15 license he spoke with Boston attorney
Mark Fischer re a better license.  The GNU Emacs license was released in
1985.

A software activist John Gilmore pointed Stallman to a clause in a copyright
notice for trn, a Unix utility.  In Nov 1986 Gilmore sent to Stallman  an
email suggesting changes to the EMACS license.

Stallman published version 1.0 of the GPL in Feb 1989
(www.gnu.org/coptleft/copying-1.0.html) almost a year after the release of
the GNU Debugger - p 126 of Williams book.

Graham Bassett



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence E. Rosen" <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>
To: <license-discuss at opensource.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:38 AM
Subject: Facts please


> Does anyone know the year that the University of California first released
> software under the BSD?
>
> Does anyone know the year in which Richard Stallman first released the GNU
> system under the GPL?
>
> /Larry Rosen
>
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