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From: seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Matthew Eric Seitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEM for Sozobon C
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Date: 8 Nov 88 20:06:09 GMT
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Reply-To: seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Matthew Eric Seitz)
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In article <17608@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> acm@cs.ucla.edu (Association for Computing Machinery) writes:
>In article <651@stag.UUCP> to_stdnet@stag.UUCP writes:
>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.

	
	I think you're mistaken.  Copyright means having the sole right
to copy something.  The principle behind this is that the copyright holder
should be paid for each copy in use.  If copyright only meant you can't sell
something for a profit, there would be nothing illegal in passing out free
copies of Word Perfect to your friends or in posting it to free bulletin boards.

>Plinio Barbeito

					Matt Seitz
					seitz@cory.berkeley.edu