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From: news@santra.UUCP (news)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What is a Public Domain SW ?
Message-ID: <11352@santra.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 12:42:04 GMT
References: <10361@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <3728@diku.dk>
Reply-To: f35387l@taltta.UUCP (Kuisma Yrj{n{ Lappalainen)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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Keywords: Public Domain Software

In article <3728@diku.dk> keld@diku.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes:
>One addition to what has already been said:
>
>"Public Domain" is a valid legal clause only in certain countries,
>USA is the only place which I know uses this term legally.
>Has anybody on the net heard of other nations where "public domain"
>is a valid legal term ?

I live in Helsinki and study at Helsinki University of Technology in Espoo,
Finland, the city West of Helsinki. I am about to buy a computer and I
have ordered it. It's an Apple Macintosh Plus. As Mr Simonsen asks about
Public Domain, I can tell that at least here in Finland it is possible
to copy Public Domain programs free of charge. In my Apple there is the
RedRyder VT100-emulator on the same disk which is reserved for Pascal
interpreter. I got the emulator by copying it in the Helsinki University
of Technology Computer Programme shop and id didn't cost me a penny.

Yours sincerely,
Kuisma Lappalainen
klappala@otax.tky.hut.fi
f35387l@taltta.UUCP.hut.fi