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- From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
- Subject: Re: Why do people want PD software?
- Message-ID: <9LywPB1w165w@cybrspc.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 10:09:19 CDT
- References: <bws.14@ccs.carleton.ca>
- Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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- bws@ccs.carleton.ca (Brian Sullivan) writes:
-
- > P.S.
- > While we are at it does, anyone know of any PD multi user games for
- > DOS. I'm thinking of something like conquest on UNIX. While it is PD on
- > UNIX, the author will not permit ports to DOS (Sigh ...)
-
- That's self-contradictory. If the software has been placed in the
- public domain (the traditional meaning of PD), then the author has given
- up any rights of control. If the author retains copyright, such that he
- can control derivitave works (like a port to DOS), then the software is
- not in the public domain. Intellectual property is not limited by
- hardware platform.
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