Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: While we're flaming about copyrights... Message-ID: <+JA3FXBxds13@ficc.uu.net> Date: 7 May 90 21:53:14 GMT References: <=X833-ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> <435:May611:29:3590@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <2498@litchi.bbn.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 In article <2498@litchi.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: > Someone else... That's me... > Look, if you want to post something to Usenet, just give the goddamn thing > away. That's what I do. I generally don't put a copyright on anything, or I copy the omnipresent "do what you want so long as you don't sue us" Berkeley/MIT copyright. But for people who want to do more, I'm trying to develop an alternative... otherwise they'll come up with something weird or restrictive. > I will now reject any posting that has a time-limited copyright, that does > not allow modifications, or that I cannot understand. What about the GPL? -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. 'U` Have you hugged your wolf today? @FIN Commercial solicitation *is* accepted by email to this address.