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From: pls@crl.com (Paul Schauble)
Newsgroups: alt.sources,comp.dcom.modems,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: zmtx/zmrx, zmodem implementation build from scratch
Date: 24 Jul 1994 01:01:35 -0700
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
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References: <1994Jul20.205542.6833@omen.UUCP> <VIXIE.94Jul20145330@office.home.vix.com> <Ct9nHG.4JB@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <1994Jul21.044338.10822@omen.uucp> <30n6ec$oeh@sun001.dsccc.com> <hamilton.774881407@BIX.com>
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hamilton@BIX.com (hamilton on BIX) writes:
>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
Exactly. Note well that the GNU software is !!NOT!! in the public domain.
++PLS