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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: etags licence?
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:56:49 -0400
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    But what about Ken Arnold's statement in his posting from 1985 that
    ctags was "public domain"?

It could be that that could allow us to drop the revised BSD license,
but I don't see that we would gain very much by doing so.