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From: pritch@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Norm Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Reason *not* to get new Borland "Turbo" releases
Keywords: copyright public-domain Borland
Message-ID: <27066@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 88 14:59:58 GMT
References: <4203@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science
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In article <4203@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
>The latest Turbo releases (C - 2.0, Pascal -5.0, Assembler -1.0)
>contain a new clause in the licence agreement.
>
>Was: "Programs that you write using [name of product] may be used, given
>away or sold without additional license or fees".
>
>Now: "Programs that you write using [name of product] may be used, given
>away or sold without additional license or fees, as long as all copies of 
>such programs bear a copyright notice.  By 'copyright notice,' we mean either
>your own copyright notice or, if you prefer, the statment, "Created using 
>[name of product], Copyright (c) Borland 1988.'"
>


There's no problem here.  If they want you to put your own copyright
notice in it go ahead.  All a copyright basically does is give the
author these rights:

	1) To claim that he wrote it.
	2) To lay terms on how it may be used.
	3) To lay terms on how it must be distributed.

The copyright laws do not mandate that #2 and #3 must be restrictive.
Simply have your copyright notice claim yourself as the author and
allow for unrestricted use and distribution.  The only thing that
this copyright prevents over a public domain release is that a
consumer can no longer claim he wrote it.  I personally use a slightly
more restrictive copyright notice on my software: I simply don't allow
it to be distributed by others for profit.





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