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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!canrem!telly!druid!darcy
- From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
- Subject: Re: DELL SVR4 - separate /usr and /var filesystem?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.153653.24969@druid.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:36:53 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.135941.13504@godzilla.quotron.com> <1992Sep10.042359.2015@bilver.uucp> <1992Sep10.181129.5826@godzilla.quotron.com>
- Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting
- Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem
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- sandy@godzilla.quotron.com (Sanford Zelkovitz) writes:
- >You will notice that a considerable amount of software, that is put into the
- >public domain, may actually have certain restrictions put upon it; such as
- >not allowing the software to be used for profitable ventures without explicit
- >consent from the author.
-
- Then it is wrong. Public domain carries no restrictions. Software which
- carries restrictions is not public domain. Unless your name is Humpty
- Dumpty you are stuck with the meaning that everyone else uses for these
- words.
-
- >Also, if I am not mistaken, all software that is written, even if it is not
- >offically copyrighted, contains an implicit copyright. This statement may,
- >in fact, not be true; however, I think that it really is.
-
- It is true unless you place the code into the public domain.
-
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