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- From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: paip copyright restriction
- Message-ID: <7896@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 18:19:21 GMT
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- In article <1dek51INN8j9@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> pnorvig@norvig.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter Norvig - Sun BOS SunLabs) writes:
- >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.
-
- I don't mean this as a complaint about your book (which I think is
- excellent), but this sort of rule significantly decreases the utility
- of books that contain code. Indeed, I sometimes wonder whether some
- of the seemingly gratuitous differences in the presentation of, say,
- "streams" in various Lisp texts might be due to a desire to avoid
- copyright problems. (By "streams" I mean lazy lists.)
-