Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: SOME ADVICE FOR NEXT Message-ID: <52954@brunix.UUCP> Date: 12 Oct 90 02:52:36 GMT References: <340@atncpc.UUCP> <1990Sep28.233054.2605@portia.Stanford.EDU> <52280@brunix.UUCP> <0b3U_TS00VI8EgY2Jm@andrew.cmu.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Distribution: comp Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 29 In article <0b3U_TS00VI8EgY2Jm@andrew.cmu.edu> dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio) writes: >rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes: >> In article <1990Sep28.233054.2605@portia.Stanford.EDU> azure@portia.Stanford.EDU (Lai Heng Chua) writes: >> >Take Lisp for example. If you develop Lisp applications for the >> >NeXT that goes for $250, you don't want to have to have the >> >buyer pay $1500 for the Lisp. Who is going to buy your app.? >> >> Fortunately you can get a runtime license for Lisp and distribute it >> with your app. You then have to pay 2% of your price as license to >> Franz, inc. > >How would this work if you want to put a program in the public domain? >-- >DdJ Don't ask me :-) I would guess that 2% of 0$ are 0$. But there is a problem with the expression public domain. You can't put something into public domain if others have copyright on parts of it. I guess you would have to sell it for 0$ or get some lawyer write a license agreement that makes clear that not all of the program in PD. Or you could publish the source and put the source into PD and sell the compiled product for 0$. Maybe someone from Franz cares to comment on this one... Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet