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- From: phbill@cyberden.uucp (Bill Kendrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Old Software
- Message-ID: <F2ckPB10w165w@cyberden.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 12:52:02 PDT
- References: <1992Aug12.073349.22236@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Organization: Indescribable Creations
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- crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow) writes:
-
- > As I understand it, that is not correct. "Public domain" is a legal
- > term meaning not copyrighted. Shareware is typically copyrighted, but
- > can be freely copied by anyone even though it is not public domain.
-
- THAT sounds more like it. Shareware is supposedly copiable AS LONG as
- the (C) is included and none of the stuff is tampered with. (oh!, and of
- course the author's name stays the same! I made myself a groovy version
- of TurboBASIC XL anvn
- and added my name and lowercase (ie- "Ready" not
- "READY")
-
- "Be seeing you!"
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- August 15, 1992
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