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- From: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: MFTU
- Message-ID: <C0EHqH.Hr4@micrognosis.co.uk>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 21:44:40 GMT
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- ARNE@KOPC.HHS.DK (Arne Vajhxj) writes:
- |> My copy of MFTU contains the following lines:
- |>
- |> ; Copyright (C) 1987 Carlo Mekenkamp
- |> ; This program is NOT in public domain.
- |> ; This program may be reproduced freely, but including
- |> ; this copyright notion.
- |>
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> 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 :-) ).
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- There is no intrinsic problem with finding buyers for code that uses such a
- copyright. I suggest you check the X11R5 (or ISODE) copyrights. These are
- in some senses stricter (they require credit in the supporting
- documentation) and yet many people buy products containing code from them.
-
- Followups should probably go to another group. Neil.
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