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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix - is this a sensible thought ?
Message-ID: <43093@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 18:24:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  5 18:24:29 1987
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Keywords: file transfer formats, etc, etc.
Summary: copyrights

> Since netnews runs on 11's, it can be ported to Minix.  Note that all the
> netnews software is public domain already (even though recent versions
> have an invalid copyright notice by Rick Adams: the software was written
> by many people and contributed by them to the public domain).

The copyright notice IS valid. One of the things you can do with public
domain software is stick your copyright notice on it. The point of my adding
the copyright notice is to keep someone from doing the same thing and trying
to sell it as theirs.

Public domain means that anyone can do anything with it. That includes selling
it, claiming they wrote it, etc.

---rick