Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!knuth!mjbtn!raider!elgamy!elg From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: C Manual Message-ID: <00674848754@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> Date: 21 May 91 17:59:14 GMT References: <1991May12.204101.29882@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Organization: Eric's Amiga 2000 @ Home Lines: 19 From article , by mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer): > In article mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: > 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 Thus the GNU CopyLeft. > 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. It's illegal if you use that claim for monetary gain. Then it's called "fraud". Look it up -- making false claims for monetary gain. -- Eric Lee Green (318) 984-1820 P.O. Box 92191 Lafayette, LA 70509 elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM uunet!mjbtn!raider!elgamy!elg