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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: v15INF4:  Ignore the copyright on the cu-shell posting
Message-ID: <11937@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 88 01:35:35 GMT
References: <981@fig.bbn.com> <2296@epimass.EPI.COM> <999@fig.bbn.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sources.d
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <999@fig.bbn.com> by rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz):
+---------------
| If you ask for cash, send a demo program, or if I believe the posting is
| in any way an attempt to make money, it gets sent to /dev/null.  If I see
| a copyright and I can't understand it, the posting gets sent to
| /dev/null.  If I get something that says "copyright Rando M. Hacker; this
| work is in the public domain" it will get sent to /dev/null.  In all cases
| I'll try to reply and explain why.  If I'm really tired and annoyed, the
| posting will get squirreled away and probably forgotten about.
+---------------

Shareware and demos are welcome on comp.sources.misc -- but they will be
clearly marked as such in the [] commentary I put at the very top of
postings; not everyone feels, as I do, that such postings have value.  Also,
if I get a posting that says "copyright ... public domain" (a bullsh*t
statement; the two are mutually incompatible) I will treat it as PD and
strip out the copyright guff entirely to prevent confusion.  (If that isn't
what the submitter wanted, I suggest they talk to a copyright lawyer and
find out the correct way to do whatever it was they wanted to do.  As far as
I'm concerned, if the author says "public domain" in the submission, it's
public domain.)

++Brandon -- the alternative moderator!  ;-)
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