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- From: sadinoff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Danny Sadinoff)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
- Subject: Re: Why is "SHAREWARE" being posted to comp.sources.misc?
- Summary: I don't really care.
- Message-ID: <97359@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 20:58:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.173928.13751@sparky.imd.sterling.com> <1992Nov11.163818.26072@bagend.uucp> <1992Nov12.181123.21015@sparky.imd.sterling.com>
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- In response to recent discussion regarding the strange release notes
- on various releases of my hebcal program (distributed on
- soc.culture.jewish and comp.sources.misc):
-
- I didn't know that this would cause such a fuss, and I really don't
- feel that strongly about the issue. What the moderator posts to
- comp.sources.misc is his or her problem, but from now on, future
- releases of hebcal will simply have an email address on them for bug
- reports.
-
- Why:
- 1) The original motivation for the email response line in my
- distribution was so that I could track the usage of hebcal and
- tailor future versions accordingly. I see now that there was no
- need to limit distribution based on that.
-
- 2) I get too much email these days because of it.
-
- 3) The whole issue of DISTRIBU-WARE and shareware w/ regards to
- hebcal is moot, (if I understand the situation correctly) since I
- didn't put in the ol' (C) at the top of my code in version 1.0, so
- the whole thing is in the public domain anyway.
-
- In short, I give up. Distribute it all you want, just keep my name on
- it. The thrust of this article will appear in the next release of
- hebcal.
-
- PS These issues are obviously important to the internet community, so
- perhaps there ought to be a FAQ dealing with the issues of copyright,
- distribution, the legal strength of shareware licenses etc., if there
- isn't one already.
-
- --
- Danny Sadinoff: sadinoff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu - No .sigs is good .sigs
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