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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
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- 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
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- Attn: Keith Petersen.
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- Hello,
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- Would you kindly add me to the packet-radio mailing list.
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- Thanks.
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- Gary D. Kline
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- ...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
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- 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
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- "Honesty without Fear" -- Kelvinator
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