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From: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IS MT UUCP Legal??
Keywords: atari st, gnu, uucp
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Date: 10 Jul 89 22:49:37 GMT
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Sender: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan)
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covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
> 	I just saw a version of 'uucp' being sold by the company
> that makes the MT C Shell. I also noticed in the credits for uucp in the
> manual, that it was ported to the ST from C Code by the GNU Freeware
> people. My question is:
> 	Is it ethical for someone to port freeware code from one
> one computer to another, and then sell the ported code??
> 
> 	The 'uucp' sold for $49.95 and has a very skimpy manual.
> About 10 pages in the small manual sized pages.

You can get the GNU source code from Beckemeyer for $10 (to cover
shipping/handling idsk :-)

Included in the uucp package for $49.95 is other Beckemeyer software
which is not GNU code.

By the way, I wrote a GFA Basic version of uucp, and anyone who wants
a copy of it (sorce code) can get it free for the asking.  It seems to
work for me.

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