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From: dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Simple soundtracker question.
Keywords: Monty Python will never die
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.011326.11097@cs.umu.se>
Date: 6 Dec 90 01:13:26 GMT
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In article <1990Dec5.185515.12982@mcs.kent.edu> eretherf@math-cs.kent.edu (Eric Von Retherford) writes:
>Please don't flame me for starting this up again...
>
>Some people say that it is commercial.
>Some people say that it is PD/SW/FW.
>
>I was reading in two of the most popular mags from Europe and nearly ALL the
>the P.D. house had some kind of music disk wit it on there. Some even had
>Noise/Sound trackers and Oktalyzer compilations containing all the newest
>version of each.
>
>My question: If these were not PD don't you think that the magazine and the
>people selling the program be in deep crap for selling these programs?
>
>Since the guy that wrote the original lives over there don't you think
>he would have bitched by now?
>

He did. He realized it was futile. He couldn't afford the legal fees.

>The reason I ask is that I want everyone to have access to them. Amiga Format
>had a PD article that listed Oktalyzer as PD.
>
>Thanks to anyone that replies.
>
>Eric Retherford
>.

If we ever get similar easy-to understand copyright rules all over the world
I am sure we will have no more problems. I will get money for a lawyer before
releasing ANY software to the market.

Jorgen
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