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- From: Les_Jenkins@lppl.mi.org (Les Jenkins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: C-NET
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- Message-ID: <Les_Jenkins.04ct@lppl.mi.org>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 08:51:01 EST
- Organization: Les's Place BBS
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- In a message dated Wed 2 Sep 92 3:27, paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- wrote:
-
- PK> What do you think us PD programmers release source code FOR, if not
- PK> for other people to make use of it?
-
- Thats fine and dandy as long as YOU don't mind having something YOU worked
- hard on and gave out FREELY to be SOLD by someone else and not receive even
- a stupid THANK YOU in the docs.
-
- Most authors of PD example code released it expecting it to be used perhaps
- in personal or otherwise PD programs. Or to be used as a guide on how to do
- a certain thing. Most require that the person who wishes to use it as part
- of a commercial package contact the author of the code for permission and
- even THEN they ask for credit where it is due. Ken has done neither of
- those things and, quite personally, if I had the talent to write a bit of
- code others would like to use and released it to the PD only to have Ken
- cut and paste it into his commercial software, I'd be quite P.O.ed about
- it.
-
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