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- From: tdietz@tcedge.mi.org (Tom Dietz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Public domain (was Re: C-NET)
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- Message-ID: <tdietz.04xr@tcedge.mi.org>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 16:21:23 EDT
- Organization: EXCELSIOR! Support BBS (313) 77-AMIGA
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- In an article, mkoch@amisys.UUCP (Mike Koch) writes:
- >is not possible. If they want to claim a copyright, it is not public
- >domain. If they wish it to be public domain, they cannot claim a copyright.
- >Now, I've never seen Steve Drew's code, but if there's a copyright notice in
- >there, then it is definitely NOT public domain, and anyone who uses that code
- >without Steve's permission is doing so illegally, and is leaving themselves
- >open to a lawsuit.
-
- Correct. I mis-stated when I used the term "PD". The code in question has a
- copyright notice intact, in the source and in the binary, as Steve Drew
- himself has said. I believe its a morality issue, this is what my opinion has
- been through-out this entire discussion. Copyright lawsuits, on this scale,
- are very costly, and for most cases is pretty much useless. I have always
- believed that when releasing commercial software, it should indeed be my own,
- or code used by permission.
-