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From: webber@klinzhai.RUTGERS.EDU (Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,misc.legal
Subject: Re: YACQ (Yet another copyright question)
Message-ID: <179@brandx.klinzhai.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 02:40:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 20 02:40:11 1987
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Summary: because it is what they want.
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In article <6280@amdahl.UUCP>, chongo@amdahl.UUCP (Landon Curt Noll) writes:
> 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?

HOPEFULLY NOT.  If the software did not add value to their
distribution, they wouldn't distribute it (tossing it in for free is
not a meaningful concept).  The sentiment of the authors who make such
copyright messages seems quite clear to me -- they are returning the
favour of other people who have posted software to the net in a
similar manner.  Doubtless when commercial companies start posting
production-quality copies of the source of their programs for free use
by the net, people will want to share with them too. [NOTE: clearly
a distinction is made between the people who work for companies and
individually post to the net and the companies they work for, in that
individuals benefit from having access to software whereas companies
benefit mainly by selling it.]  Of course, I wouldn't even begin to
guess what a lawyer would say about all this.

------------------- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; BACKBONE!topazat tof !u