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From: mark@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
Newsgroups: news.admin,sci.electronics,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: network public domain?
Message-ID: <530@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG>
Date: 8 Feb 89 16:14:28 GMT
References: <2712@looking.UUCP> <1449@papaya.bbn.com> <2944@stiatl.UUCP> <24371@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: mark@jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
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In article <24371@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <2944@stiatl.UUCP> john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond) writes:
>|
>|This network is public domain and if you don't want anything in
>|the public domain, DON'T POST IT.

This is blatently wrong.  There are a number of people on the net which
have posted copyrighted source to the net, including myself.  The copyright
includes permission to copy the software freely for non-profit use, or
whatever restrictions you wish to add.  Take a look at comp.os.minix.  The
stuff in there is definitely NOT public domain.  It is all copyrighted, and
protected by US copyright laws.  Take a look at flex, the sources to news
2.11, and others.

>I was trying to decide if I should get my company to post some free,
>useful, but NOT public domain, software to the network. 
>
>You've just helped me decide not to bother.

If you have something useful and free, then you should post it.  It is this
kind of empathy that keeps the net running and useful for all of us.


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