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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: POE copyright problems
Message-ID: <7108@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 21:41:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: g.7108
Posted: Sat Aug 15 21:41:16 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 12:04:45 EDT
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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Keywords: copyright, public domain


At the beginning of POE.DOC:


-                          ProComm Outside Environment
-                                   POE 1.0.0
-                                July 22nd, 1987
-
>                      Copyright (c) 1987 by Mark Herring
>                         Donated to the Public Domain


Note the lines with the arrows.  People can write marvelous software,
but they can't tell the difference between a Copyright and Public
Domain.  Someone should call him up and tell him that he invalidates
his own Copyright.

If you don't know, Copyright means you control the right to copy.
Public Domain means that you have relinquished all exclusive rights
to it.

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