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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Public Domain Netnews...
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Date: Sat, 21-Feb-87 21:07:47 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 21 21:07:47 1987
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> So instead I'd like to propose a group of people get together and work
> on a replacement for netnews that is explicitly without copyright and
> without any limitations on its use and distribution...

You may want to consider that there are at least two netnews-replacement
projects already running, both of which intend relatively open release of
their work.  The one I'm involved with (C news) will be distributed with
the same sort of copyright notice as other recent stuff from hereabouts:
one that requires proper credit to the authors but otherwise explicitly
authorizes wide-open use and distribution.

You realize, I trust, that if you don't put a copyright on it, anyone can
rip it off, put his name on it, and publish it without credit of any kind?
Or make fifteen stupid changes that introduce an equal number of bugs, and
pass it on to his friends claiming it came from you?  This sort of thing
is the reason why I no longer public-domain my stuff.
-- 
Legalize			Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
freedom!			{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry