Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: PD Message-ID: <1989Oct23.012503.11580@rpi.edu> Date: 23 Oct 89 01:25:03 GMT References: <8910160520.AA01740@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <4426@yunexus.UUCP> <4496@yunexus.UUCP> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 25 In Russ Nelson writes: Russ> If *I* want all of my code to be distributed with source, and Russ> someone uses some code that I have put into the PD and, for Russ> whatever reasons of their own, refuses to distribute source, I Russ> have no recourse. They are using my code in a way that is Russ> anathema to me. In <4496@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes: Oz> This is true. The missing bit is that noone has the right (nor, possibly Oz> the capability, depending on how you distribute) to restrict the original Oz> code [the one you provably authored and released into public domain] in Oz> any way. So, I do not see what the problem is. The problem is this: my work is being used in a manner in which I do not approve. Plain and simple. _That_ is a problem. Say I write a compiler which generates smaller, faster code than most other available compilers, someone else changes one or two things and makes it run on their machines, and then sells it but refuses to give clients source so that they can tweak it on those machines as they desire. This was not something I wanted, yet my work had been a major factor in it. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))