Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!oz From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: PD / Re: Selling of free software Message-ID: <13708@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Date: 10 Aug 90 12:39:09 GMT References: <6--4A8C@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Aug8.173146.1206@santra.uucp> <7268@star.cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@yunexus.YorkU.CA Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development Lines: 23 In article <7268@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: >This is correct. If you post a program and put in an explicit message that >it is in the public domain, then no one can get it out of the public domain. This is absolutely true. >Anyone can modify it (even a single character) and then copyright the modified >version This is not. Copyright laws do not allow "trivial" derivations of public domain works to be copyrighted. >I would suggest that people who post software and intend it to be in the >public domain, put in a notice to that effect. Yes, please. oz --- First learn your horn and all the theory. Internet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca Next develop a style. Then forget all that uucp: utzoo/utai!yunexus!oz and just play. Charlie Parker [?] York U. CCS: (416) 736 5257