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From: hamilton@BIX.com (hamilton on BIX)
Newsgroups: alt.sources,comp.dcom.modems,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: zmtx/zmrx, zmodem implementation build from scratch
Date: 22 Jul 94 12:50:07 GMT
Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
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jmccarty@spd.dsccc.com (Mike McCarty) writes:
>Hmmm. When a copyright or patent is put in the public domain, that does
>not mean that there is no copyright or patent. It means that the public
>owns the copyright or patent. It does EMPHATICALLY NOT mean that a
>person can do what he wants to do with the material in the public
>domain. That's why the GNU free software foundation goes to such lengths
>to ensure that people can do what they want (except make money, I guess)
>off of their "copylefted" software. They can't just put the copyright in
>the public domain, because it would not do what they want.
>This appears to me to be a blatant violation of copyright to me.
>But I'm not a lawyer.
I think you should talk to one. Whatever is in the public domain
may be used by anyone for any otherwise legal purpose. That includes
publishing it for profit.
The reason the FSF uses a copyleft is because that last part (publishing
for profit) is not acceptable to them.
Regards,
Doug Hamilton KD1UJ hamilton@bix.com Ph 508-358-5715
Hamilton Laboratories, 13 Old Farm Road, Wayland, MA 01778-3117, USA