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- From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: C-NET
- Message-ID: <8339@orbit.cts.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 07:55:59 GMT
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- Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.
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- tdietz@tcedge.mi.org (Tom Dietz) writes:
- >In an article, eodell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eugene O'Dell) writes:
- >
- >>Why're you complaining that Ken used PD code? It's in the public
- >>domain for a reason, and the reason is that so people can benefit from
- >>it.
- >>
- >
- >PD code is still Copywritten. Copywritten code is protected for the basic
- >principle of someone else cannot sell it. People that produce PD code are a
- >good asset to the Amiga community, they share there knowledge openly with
- >others, this code is STILL copywritten, this is the what copyright office says
-
- ummm.. you better check your legalities again. PD means PUBLIC DOMAIN.
- Anything in the public domain can be used by anyone, for anything. You can
- even copywrite something public domain yourself, though it may not stand up in
- court.
-
- If you copywrite something, it is not public domain (well, it might be, if the
- copywrite doesn't stand up in court. An example of this is Skypix which is
- based on the public domain ANSI standard escape sequences)
-
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