Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!oddjob!hao!ames!amdahl!drivax!cavender
From: cavender@drivax.UUCP (DRI wit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PLANETS.COM
Message-ID: <3106@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 18:03:28 GMT
References: <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: cavender@drivax.UUCP (DRI wit)
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Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA
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In article <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> tknight@watdcsu.waterloo.edu
                                       (T.Knight - Computing Services)
                                       (or Fred Widall) writes:
>
>   A few days ago someone was asking for source to PLANETS.COM that was
>posted recently. I just ran PLANETS through CHK4BOMB and found a
>"Copyright 1985 Borland Inc." message in it. When you invoke PLANETS
>it displays the message "PLANETS V3.0 is a Public Domain Program". Looks
>like someone's doing a little piracy.
...

That copyright message is included in any object generated by one of Borland's
Turbo languages.  I wish that either they would not include the message, or
that the message made it clear that it was the included runtime library code
that was what was actually copyrighted by Borland.  Confusion abounds aplenty
already, and having this message included in programs (personal, commercial,
public domain, etc.) does nothing to help the situation.

-- 
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