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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!bilver!bill
- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: PD Software (was: DELL SVR4 - ...)
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:17:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.221746.12502@bilver.uucp>
- Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem
- References: <BuB4tJ.FK0@gator.rn.com> <1992Sep9.135941.13504@godzilla.quotron.com> <1992Sep11.040720.9449@wolves.uucp>
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- In article <1992Sep11.040720.9449@wolves.uucp> ggw@wolves.durham.nc.us writes:
- >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!
-
- Your current posting to the net doesn't have any copyright from you in
- it. Maybe that's why they never contacted you :-(
-
- >
- >Let us *not* confuse PD (Public Domain) software, and "freeware" (freely
- >available, but copyrighted).
- ...
- >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.
-
- That's one good reason for keeping a copy of posted material with your
- copyright notice in it. Duplicated code with the copyright removed
- should be fairly easy to spot - assuming that those who removed the
- copyright notice didn't do anything else to the code.
-
- --
- Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org bill.vermillion@oau.org
- - bill@bilver.uucp
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