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- From: ARNE@KOPC.HHS.DK (Arne Vajhxj)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: MFTU
- Message-ID: <01GT5R8XNTL28WWF5C@kopc.hhs.dk>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 11:36:24 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
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- > on an old DECUS-tape I found a programm called MFTU. It converts VMS-files into
- > ASCII text (suitable for electronic mail exchange) and vice versa, preserving
- > the original VMS file structure.
- > Now my question: is this program free to copy and distribute? Someone told me
- > that it is meanwhile sold commercially. Is this correct?
- > On the other hand - is there a public-domain program that does the same (I know
- > UUE, TAR, COMPRESS and so on, but these don't preserve the VMS file structure)?
-
- My copy of MFTU contains the following lines:
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- ; Copyright (C) 1987 Carlo Mekenkamp
- ; This program is NOT in public domain.
- ; This program may be reproduced freely, but including
- ; this copyright notion.
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- Which I interpret (the word reproduce sounds a little weird in this context)
- as "free to copy and distribute" AS LONG it contains the original
- copyright.
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- Without being a lawyer I think, it is impossible to withdraw such a permission,
- when it is once give. This does not imply that the eprogram can not be
- sold commercially (but maybe it will be difficult to find buyers :-) ).
-
- Anyway - I think a better method is to use ZIP (the new version do preserve
- VMS file attributes) to compress the file and use UUENCODE or VMS_SHARE to
- encode the zip-archive for mailing.
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- Arne
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