Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: An enhanced list manager... Message-ID: <7292@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 18 Jan 90 23:05:13 GMT Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Lines: 36 In article , time@oxtrap.aa.ox.com (Tim Endres) writes... >In article <1493@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> jherr@umbio.miami.edu (Jack Herrington) writes: [has written his own version of the list manager and is worried about Apple's] [reaction] >Release the code and forget what Apple thinks. > >They have no claim over your "original" work in any way shape or form. >Further, if they wish to persue copyright, patent, or "look-and-feel" >infringement, you have to have something worth coming after. Free >software does not generate much revenue to sue for. > >And people wonder why the FSF bitches about Apple. Let me get this straight: Jack is _worried_ that Apple might object, and you hold this up as an example of why FSF bitches about Apple??????? Apple has said nothing to Jack, as far as I could see from your excerpt of his message. If he's written his own code which implements a different version of the list manager, I can't see the problem. People patch the toolbox with their own code all the time, and I reckon you're free to write any kind of software for the Mac you want. _If_, however, he's based his work on the actual code of the List Manager, that's a different story: he has no right to "re-work" Apple's code and release it. That's not releasing free software; that's re-releasing someone else's work. Robert ============================================================================ = gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu * generic disclaimer: * "It's more fun to = = * all my opinions are * compute" = = * mine * -Kraftwerk = ============================================================================