>>187 Intellectual property enters the public domain only when it grows old. Everything else, including certainly any computer software of recent vintage, is owned by somebody somewhere. http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/lisp/emulation/vi.el?root=emacs&view=markup ;; This file is in the public domain because the authors distributed it ;; without a copyright notice before the US signed the Bern Convention.