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From: seitz@netcom.UUCP (Matthew Seitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari ST software for sale
Message-ID: <21459@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 91 18:54:31 GMT
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In article <510012@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM> stefan@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM (#Stefan Bachert) writes:
>My knownledge about 1st Word is that this version (not 1st Word plus )is free.
>TeX and GNU C is public domain. I don't know about the others.
>If I am right YOU should NOT SELL this programs!

If I am right, public domain means you can do whatever you want with these
programs, including sell them for whatever price you want.  Also I believe
the GNU software is copyrighted, not public domain.  Whether or not it can
be sold depends on what the license agreement says.

In short:

public domain == can be sold
freely distributable != public domain
GNU == freely distributable != public domain

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