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From: davidli@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Dave Meile)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Languages!!!
Keywords: Languages
Message-ID: <16977@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Date: 13 Nov 89 21:39:13 GMT
References: <8911110458.AA06278@jupiter.nmt.edu> <3289@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: davidli@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dave Meile)
Organization: Flying Taoist Graphics
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In article <3289@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> RICK@JHUVM (Eric Ruck) writes:
>Strikes me that older versions of GFA Basic are in the public domain.

Much as we might like them to be, all past and present version of GFA BASIC
are _NOT_ in the public domain.  Version 2.0 was published on the January 1989
disk that goes with START magazine, but unless stated otherwise, programs in
START are _NOT_ public domain.

This crops up about once or twice a year, and it would probably be wise for
people posting such information to make _SURE_ that they have their facts
straight, or some poor soul out there is going to have an unpleasant suprise
when s/he's accused of "software piracy".

On the other hand, Jim Kent _HAS_ acquired the rights to the last version of
what used to be called Aegis Animator, and has released a shareware version
under the name AniST.  The program was published in the November 1989 issue
of START magazine, and was posted to GEnie.  I don't know about the other
services (CompuServe?...).

Anyway, I wanted to prevent some less-than-correct information from spreading
across the network.  Now, back to your regularly scheduled "my computer is
better..." :-(

-- David Paschall-Zimbel