Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: C Manual Message-ID: Date: 19 May 91 23:52:22 GMT References: <1991May12.204101.29882@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG's message of 17 May 91 22:19:12 PST In article mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: You must be kidding. Anyone who sends you money should be sending it to the author of the manual instead. Your $30 fee doesn't just cover your costs of distribution, which is what PD Wares dictate you can charge. Unless "PD Wares" is the name of the owner of the manual (which a quick scan of the Fish disk entry didn't show), this is wrong. If a piece of software is PD, then in the US I can legally do whatever I want with it, including repackaging it and charging whatever I want for it. In fact, there are cases where the buyer of such software had paied for it's development in the first place. There's not a thing they can do about it. It's not even clear that claiming I wrote a piece of PD Software illegal. Being a lie, it's unethical - but that doesn't make it illegal.