Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM!jrd From: jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: The INTERNET.... Message-ID: <19891118201818.8.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> Date: 18 Nov 89 20:18:00 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 Date: 16 Nov 89 14:08:00 GMT From: gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!welch.jhu.edu!stevek@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Steve Kelley) Is C65 public domain? [I'm assuming you mean CC65] CC65 is *NOT* public domain. It *IS* freely copyable, which is what you're probably really interested in. So what's the difference? Stuff that's in the public domain may be used for any purpose by anyone. I didn't want CC65 and the related tools to fall into the hands of someone who would attempt to charge money for them, or someone who would modify them and then not make the modified sources available. Therefore, the terms of distribution are that anyone may copy it and modify it, but must make the modified copies available, with sources, for free. Ie, do what you want with it, but don't attempt to take away anyone else's right to do what they want with it. If so, is it available via ftp? Yes. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten the compiler sources cleaned up yet (I had a hack attack and started fixing bugs) but they should be appearing shortly. All the other sources, and all the executables, are there. 3rdly, could some post a list of ftp sites? The only one I know of that has it is terminator.cc.umich.edu.