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From: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mercury Authorship
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Date: 30 Mar 91 04:40:42 GMT
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jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura) writes:
>as I look at this Mercury package,
>something strange stands out.  There are NO credits given to ANYBODY
>else.  The author claims FULL ORIGINALITY of his code.  But when I
>looked at a couple of the files, some of the code looked sort of
>familiar.

>So here's my question:  Does anybody feel that the author of
>Mercury has "illegitimately" removed credits of other peoples work?

Part of Mercury UUCP (the outcalling version of UUCICO) was orginally
written by me in GFA Basic and published in the public domain.  Thus
the Mercury author was within his full rights to use it as he saw fit.

In fact, he contacted me beforehand, and I specifically suggested that
he could do as he pleased with it, *INCLUDING* take my name off it.

However, my name was still in the Mercury code I saw several months ago
even though the new author had improved it by (using reverse engineering)
adding the complicated code to allow incoming calls and probably other
functional improvements.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm quite happy with the way Mercury
was developed and published

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