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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NEOchrome
Summary: was PD, now commercial
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.134416.4500@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 6 Feb 91 13:44:16 GMT
References: <2089@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill%biomel@cs.dal.ca
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <2089@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes:
>
>What is the current copyright status of NEOchrome? Is it Public Domain or what?
>My ST came with version 0.5 free on the language disk. I believe that
>version 1.00 was on sale in the UK some years ago (for ~15 pounds).
>Now I see it advertised by Public Domain libraries.

Up until 0.9 NEOchrome was a freebie with the ST.  Ver. 1.0 was
commercial, and Atari stopped bundling it.  That was a long time ago,
and I don't know the current status.

Technically I suppose that giving a bundled copy of ST software to
someone who bought a later ST without it (including NEOchrome, 1st Word,
etc.) is illegal, although a lot of that goes on.  But a free copy of
NEOchrome 1.0 or later is definitely pirated.
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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