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From: acm@valhalla.cs.ucla.edu (Association for Computing Machinery)
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Subject: Re: GEM for Sozobon C
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Date: 7 Nov 88 17:17:59 GMT
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In article <651@stag.UUCP> to_stdnet@stag.UUCP writes:
>From: thelake!steve@stag.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)
>
[...]
>no takers, so he was releasing them as "public domain" but retaining the
>copyright. (That's a contradiction, but I suppose he means "you can pass
>this around and use it as you see fit.")
>
>
>  | thelake!steve@stag.UUCP or steve@pnet51.cts.com
>  |
>  |                    rosevax!\
>  | ...rutgers!umn-cs!mmm!pwcs!stag!thelake!steve 
>  |         ...amdahl!ems!/     /
>  |                           eta! 
Unless I'm mistaken, your holding a copyright to a program simply means you
are the only person who has the right to make money from it.  The purpose 
for many public domain copyright notices is to keep certain people from selling
your product while claiming that they developed it.  This is in contrast to
having the sole right to copy it, despite how it sounds.

(you think this is confusing, you ought to see the California ballot!) 
Plinio Barbeito


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