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From: njd@ihlpm.ATT.COM (DiMasi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <1598@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 88 19:05:49 GMT
References: <8801061719.AA21464@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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> 
> ....
> up the issue; he would simply have asked for the program.  But I thought I
> might point out for anyone who wasn't aware that most of the magazines that
> publish software specifically reserve all rights to the software.  If we want
> the program, we're supposed to buy the magazine or the disk, just like the
> more traditional commercial ware.
> ...

I should point out here that this is not strictly  true  for  all   of
the   Atari-  specific   magazines:   ANALOG  states  (both  in  their
mag and on the DELPHI Atari  SIG  that  they  support)  that  programs
published   in  their magazines  are  NOT  public  domain,  but  after
the issue date of the magazine, the programs may be  "made  available"
to  user   groups,   BBSs,  etc.   (Since  their  publication has been
behind, once the mag's have come out, the issue date has passed.   So,
recently, I have  been  able to  legitimately  give  a  friend of mine
a copy of a program obtained from ANALOG/DELPHI-Atari-SIG as soon as I
get  it  myself.   ANALOG  does not  give permission to distribute the
text of the articles describing the programs, however.

Nick DiMasi
Uni'q Digital Technologies (Fox Valley Software subsidiary;
   ^          working as a contractor at AT&T Bell Labs in Naperville, IL)
(  | this is an accent mark, supposed to replace the dot over the 'i')