Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!husc6!psuvax1!flee From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Re: GNU's not GNU... Message-ID: Date: 7 Apr 89 23:39:11 GMT References: <28354@apple.Apple.COM> <8904042254.AA00430@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <819@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 18 In article <819@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, moore@cygnusx1.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) writes: >(b) Allow look-and-feel copyrights, but only for a very short tenure. >This preserves some of the original idea of copyright law, but updates it >to the present circumstances where software becomes obsolete long before >the copyright runs out. Let's grant one-year copyrights for *any* software product! (When was the last time you used a release of software that was more than a year old? Really? You should be ashamed!) How about copyrights lasting one year or until the warranty expires, whichever is shorter? Let's munge copyrights to fit the high-speed information society! -- Felix Lee flee@shire.cs.psu.edu *!psuvax1!shire!flee