Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!johns
From: johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Software from START
Summary: Do I need to buy the magazine?
Message-ID: <25AEA403.23275@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 13 Jan 90 03:44:02 GMT
References: <1513@castle.ed.ac.uk> <24938@brunix.UUCP> <18126@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <18126@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> davidli@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (David Paschall-Zimbel) writes:
>[...]
>Public domain programs have appeared in STart before, and are generally
>marked as such.  Programs such as ST Writer may be freely copied, since
>STart magazine _cannot_ hold a copyright on the material.  This does not mean
>that all programs on STart are PD, most of the are not.  But in the case of
>Ani-ST and ST Writer, the programs are freely distributable ...
>
>-- David Paschall-Zimbel

	What about programs like GFA BASIC, and some of the other GFA
	stuff that was released on START issues?  Is that PD, or do I have
	to buy a START disk?
-- 
"After all is said and done,                       John Schmitt
 a lot more is said than done."                    johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
Don't blame anybody for what I say.                SCHMITTJ@SCIvax.mcmaster.ca