Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!evan
From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
Message-ID: <25D898F2.4813@telly.on.ca>
Date: 13 Feb 90 23:32:01 GMT
References: <1236@utoday.UUCP> <13519@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <1249@utoday.UUCP>
Organization: Public Access Usenet, Brampton, Ontario
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In article <1249@utoday.UUCP> greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:

> dalenber@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Russel Dalenberg) writes:

>>[...] if Lotus 123 was posted to Usenet by it's copyright owners, even
>>with a "shareware license", I would consider the copy I received to be mine;
>>free and clear.

>Now, tell me what shareware author would knowingly post their software to
>UseNet with an attitude such as yours rampant?  None I can think of.

Attention, shareware authors! If you allow your work to be distributed
over Usenet, it may be mucked with by people whose ethics don't resemble
yours at all. Your licences will be ignored, your requests for payment
sneered at, your evaluation deadlines ridiculed.

Answer: Don't post shareware on Usenet. Don't even allow it to be done.
Explicitly disallow Usenet posting of your work in your copyright notice.

>Good.  Glad we got that settled.

Me too.

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