Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mdf From: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Status report on PKWare Message-ID: <26490@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 3 Nov 88 00:59:05 GMT References: <362@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <1121@lakesys.UUCP> <379@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Reply-To: mdf@tut.cis.osu-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman) Organization: CompuServe; Columbus, OH. (personal guest account) at Ohio State U.) Lines: 28 In <379@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> jbrown@jato.UUCP (Jordan Brown) writes: >In article <1121@lakesys.UUCP> mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk) writes: >I was responding to a comment that said that PK did not want to release >the source to his program (the complete thing) because then he would be >like SEA, beating up on people for "using" the supplied code. I was >attempting to say that it is perfectly possible to release source code >while retaining all rights to the code. If somebody "uses" this code >by selling derivative works, then they are violating your copyright... >The source >code is provided to allow users to modify and port the program; doing >so does not relieve them of their legal obligations to the author. Personally, I think portable, non-optimized C sources should be released for distribution with the restriction that no software built or derived from those sources could be sold. Anyone who takes those sources and ports them to a new environment could always see if PK will license the new ported version and sell it, giving the porting programmer a royalty on that version's sales. Unless PK is about to release a commercial version for a given environment, it would be in their best interest to license a version for that environment from some third party so everyone could make a little more money, and pass files between more differing systems. -- Mark D. Freeman (614) 262-1418 Applications Programmer, CompuServe mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu [70003,4277] ...!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mdf Columbus, OH Guest account at The Ohio State University