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From: [e-mail] (Peter Norvig - Sun BOS SunLabs)
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Subject: Re: paip copyright restriction
Date: 6 Nov 1992 20:21:53 GMT
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My understanding and intent is that the copyright on the code has the
same status as the copyright on a book or article: it allows you the
reader to make whatever personal use of it you want, but you can't
sell it without my permission.  (If someone does want to use my code
in a commercial application, I'd be happy to negotiate something.)
It may be that the copyright technically prohibits you from passing on
free copies also, but that was not my intent: I placed the code in a
public place so that it would be used, and if any reader wants to give a
free copy to someone else, you hereby have my permission.

Note that copyright does not cover ideas, only their expression, so if you
reimplement the code its yours.  Also note that these are my impressions,
with no legal advice, so I could be all wrong.

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