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- From: ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: PD Software (was: DELL SVR4 - ...)
- Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.040720.9449@wolves.uucp>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 04:07:20 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.145610.1099@godzilla.quotron.com> <BuB4tJ.FK0@gator.rn.com> <1992Sep9.135941.13504@godzilla.quotron.com>
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- Organization: Wolves Den UNIX
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- sandy@godzilla.quotron.com (Sanford Zelkovitz) writes:
- >larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >>
- >>As a bonus, Dell comes with all kinds of PDS ported and ready to run.
- >
- >I hope that they got the OK from the authors of the PD software! If not,
- >they may be violating the copyrights! If they are distributing any of my
- >PD software, they never contacted me for my OK!
-
- Let us *not* confuse PD (Public Domain) software, and "freeware" (freely
- available, but copyrighted).
-
- If the stuff is "PD" then there is absolutely no need to contact the
- author for permission to distribute.
-
- Freeware has only a minimaly more need for contacting the author. If
- the software is available on anonymous FTP archives, then there is
- probably no need to ask the authors for permission to distribute.
- Indeed, if they provide the sources with the system, they can even put
- the GNU/FSF stuff on the machine.
-
- Once the stuff is in the archives, then there is precious little the
- author can really do as long as their name(s) and copyright notices are
- preserved.
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