Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!fernwood!uupsi!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Terminal Emulator Recomendations Message-ID: <16001@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 30 Apr 91 14:48:18 GMT References: <9104271528.AA13112@apple.com> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <9104271528.AA13112@apple.com> MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes: >I know that with freeware software, you aren't obligated to send in money, >and with shareware you are, but they're both in the 'public domain'. No, when the owner releases something to the public domain, he relinquishes all ownership rights to it. Unless he explicitly has released it to the public domain, an author retains copyright of his creation. "Freeware" and "shareware" describe categories of NON-public-domain works for which the legal owner has announced certain payment policies.