Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!amdahl!chongo From: chongo@amdahl.UUCP (Landon Curt Noll) Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: YACQ (Yet another copyright question) Message-ID: <6280@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Apr-87 06:09:51 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.6280 Posted: Sun Apr 19 06:09:51 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 17:58:29 EST References: <4406@hi.uucp> Reply-To: chongo@amdahl.UUCP (Landon Curt Noll) Distribution: na Organization: Amdahl Coup, UTS Products Hen house Lines: 25 Xref: mnetor misc.legal:1440 comp.sources.d:607 In article <4406@hi.uucp> kurt@hi.uucp (Kurt Zeilenga) writes: > > This software or its use shall not be: sold, rented, leased, > traded, or otherwise marketed without the expressed written > permission of the author. > Consider company X which sells a Un*x system & software. Can they include code that contains the above restriction, free of charge? Or in order words can one sell Un*x for $Y, and toss in such programs for free? If someone is going to broadcast a game all over USENET, why would they want to prevent someone else from adding it into their software distribution? Perhaps the following would make things more clear: This software or its use shall not be: sold, rented, leased, traded, or otherwise marketed without the expressed written permission of the author. This software may be included in a software package that is sold so long as its inclusion does not result in an increased cost of the package. chongo /\oo/\ -- [views above shouldn't be viewed as Amdahl views, or as views from Amdahl, or as Amdahl views views, or as views by Mr. Amdahl, or as views from his house]