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From: fmayhar@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Frank Mayhar)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: network public domain?
Message-ID: <7083@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 8 Feb 89 18:40:38 GMT
References: <2712@looking.UUCP> <1449@papaya.bbn.com> <2944@stiatl.UUCP> <24371@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: fmayhar@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Frank Mayhar)
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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.
>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.

Fortunately for Richard Stallman, AT&T, and others like them, software posted
to the net does NOT automatically become public domain.  If a copyright notice
is attached, there should be no problem.  For a good example of this, see the
Gnu Emacs distribution.

(I mention AT&T because of the mistaken posting of YACC [their proprietary
software], some time ago.)

My advice to John DeArmond:  Look before you leap.
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