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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Copyright question from Russia
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.235518.14994@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 23:55:18 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Dec14.235518.14994
- References: <AACHK8hmy9@lcta5.jinr.dubna.su>
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- evsikov@lcta5.jinr.dubna.su (Igor Evsikov) writes:
-
- >I and my friends wrote changes to Turbo Vision. We changed
- >DRIVERS, VIEW, MENU and DIALOG TPU's in original Borlang codes.
-
- >I can send DEMO. Can I distribute it as SAREWARE? In Russian we
- >don't this problems. Excuse me for bad English.
-
- It depends. What mattters is if your stuff is a "derivative work"
- under the laws.
-
- A quick test would be "did you modify Borland's code?" Or did you
- just write replacements. If "derived from" the Borland code, you'll
- be violating copyright. If it's your own code you won't. And if you
- are like most programmers, it's a little of both.
-
- So there *isn't* a clear cut answer.
-
-
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- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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