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From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine)
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Subject: Re: PD or Shareware Copyrights
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Date: 22 Jun 89 20:43:10 GMT
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In-reply-to: new@udel.EDU's message of 22 Jun 89 17:06:11 GMT

In article <18280@louie.udel.EDU> new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes:

>If you say Public Domain then anyone can do anything they like with
>it.

This means ANYTHING, folks...  like adding a COMMENT "Copyright 1989
Sid Sleaze" which they can then legally enforce.  (Of course, the
original public domain version without the comment remains free.)

>In other words, saying "This is Public Domain except that you can't
>sell it for money" is oxymoronic.

Just plain moronic.

Deven
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