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- From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: paip [Re: #'reduce]
- Message-ID: <7877@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:48:50 GMT
- References: <1asmh4INNh5e@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> <7843@skye.ed.ac.uk> <OZ.92Nov6120318@ursa.sis.yorku.ca>
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- In article <OZ.92Nov6120318@ursa.sis.yorku.ca> oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:
- >Jeff Dalton writes:
- >
- > But while we're here, what is the status of the code in that book?
- > What are people who read the book allowed to use it for?
- >
- >He made the code freely available, for ftp. [the scheme repository
- >has it as well] sources contain a simple copyright, with no gratuituous
- >restrictions, so I assume you use them just like you use any other
- >source distributed publically with a copyright. [Peter?]
-
- Copyright comes with a bunch of restrictions automatically, though
- I'm not sure exactly what they imply for code. The way things are
- going these days, I'd be very cautious about using any copyrighted
- code in a commercial product unless very explicit permission was
- granted; and I'm not sure academic use is any less restricted
- (it's just that the consequences of things going wrong are probably
- less).
-
- But I don't really know what the rules are for books that contain
- code. For instance, if I look up an algorithm in a book, can I
- use the code in the book as-is or do I have to make gratuitous
- changes or what?
-
- -- jeff
-