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From wang!elf.wang.com!ucsd.edu!packet-radio-relay Sat Feb 16 16:18:42 1991 remote from tosspot
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Subject: Packet-Radio Digest V91 #45
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Packet-Radio Digest Sat, 16 Feb 91 Volume 91 : Issue 45
Today's Topics:
please add me to the mailing list
Shareware over packet?
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Date: 15 Feb 91 15:45:19 CST (Fri)
From: ssi!tao!gdk@uunet.UU.NET (gdk)
Subject: please add me to the mailing list
To: packet-radio@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
Attn: Keith Petersen.
Hello,
Would you kindly add me to the packet-radio mailing list.
Thanks.
Gary D. Kline
...uunet!ssi!tao!gdk
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Date: 15 Feb 91 17:25:58 GMT
From: usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!know!tegra!vail@ucsd.edu (Johnathan Vail)
Subject: Shareware over packet?
To: packet-radio@ucsd.edu
In article <27B97A19.15785@ics.uci.edu> turner@ics.uci.edu (Clark Turner) writes:
In article <1991Feb13.131453.4557@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>In article <1991Feb13.061842.15332@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
>
>>If the software so much as suggests sending money to the author... then it
>>is business. If the software is public domain and has no hint of such a
>>suggestion, it might not be business. If it is being distributed for the
...(stuff deleted)...
>
>The larger problem, I suspect, is that most folks don't understand what
>"Public Domain" really means, If they wanted to ensure that their
The point made here appears to be a "gray" area. I would clearly see the
copyright restriction you append to software as taking the work out of the
commercial realm - but who knows what the FCC would do, or a Federal court?
AND, I agree that there is confusion about putting works into the public
domain...and that your restrictive copyright notice makes an important
statement at the very least.
There is a general lack of understanding between the difference
between shareware (and derivitives like crippleware) and public domain
as well as freely distributable "copyleft" software.
I don't see "shareware", which solicits funds and depends on its
distribution through networks for generating revenue to be anything
other than commercial. If it is transfered over amateur radio you are
using amateur radio to further their business and commercial interests.
The fact that it is done and as far as I know tolerated doesn't make
it legal.
jv
"Honesty without Fear" -- Kelvinator
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