Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: What does "free" mean, eh? (Re: Scareware) Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 90 16:15:30 GMT References: <14010@s.ms.uky.edu> <125816@midas.UUCP> <635@magnus.Hotline.Com> <34812@watmath.waterloo.edu> <10612@hoptoad.uucp> <18111@rpp386.cactus.org> <1990Mar10.011221.29457@pegasus.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 > If I can include your programs in mine then all I need to do to "steal" them > is to wrap them in a few lines of my own code. It doesn't sound like your > programs are protected from "theft" at all. You can't steal something I'm giving away. As for whether you can hide them in your code so I can't look at your program and say "hey, he's using my file requestor in his program"... you can do as much with GNU code, or AT&T Trade Secret code for that matter. I can't claim any magic ability to spot violations any more than anyone else can. -- _--_|\ `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ 'U` \_.--._/ v