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From: Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Ethics in programming....
Message-ID: <20338@cup.portal.com>
Date: 11 Jul 89 23:22:36 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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  I have a question for all the folks out there on the net.  This is a very 
broad question, but since I couldn't find a specific newsgroup to deal with it
I decided to post it here since it deals with the Atari 8-bit.

  I want to know the ethical [and legal if there are any copyright lawyers out
there] rules [laws, scriptures, traditions] of posting/destributing the source
code of a copyrighted program.  In particular I am speaking of TEXTPRO3.2R.  I
have been unsuccessful in my quest to locate the authors, so I have 
disassembled the object code and I am in the process of commenting it.
  After I finish I want to distribute it [for free] to anyone who asks.  Now,
how about some comments on what I want to do?  Please, no flames, I won't take
a single point you raise seriously if you put it in a flame.

Charles Hughes
@cup.portal.com