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From: belal@sco.COM (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: X version of mush?
Message-ID: <9105060847.aa16243@scooa.sco.COM>
Date: 6 May 91 15:47:02 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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>    (1) Can someone -- even the authors -- retroactively place
>        restrictions on a piece software whose source has been placed in
>        the public domain?  

mush source code was never placed in the public domain.  It was made
publically available; legally this is totally different from placing
it in the public domain.

There are probably ways, such as the one you described, in which to
violate the spirit of the mush public license without violating the
letter.  So?

Legal restrictions and legalese are for nasty people.  The rest of us
need only abide by the wishes of the natural owners of the item (the
mush source, in this case) without worrying about the "legal" status of
those wishes.

>Bela<  Speaking from but not for SCO...