Re: Public Domain S/W

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From: Joe Buck
Date: Mon, 06 May 1991 17:44

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In article <1991May5.063559.20481@jack.sns.com> james@jack.sns.com writes:
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>Does anyone have answers for those questions below?
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>Is it ethical selling PD software?

Yes.

>Is it legal selling PD software?

Yes.  Your problem is that you don't know what public domain means.
Public domain means that anyone can do anything with the software,
including sell it, pretend that they wrote it, etc.

Almost no software is really public domain.  You are confusing "public
domain" with "freely redistributable".

>Is it ethical selling service of PD software?

Hell, yes, and it's a vitally needed service.

>Is it legal selling service of PD software?

Of course.

>Is it legal to sell a revised version of a PD software(99.99% original)?
>Is it legal to sell a revised version of a PD software(1% - 99% original)?
>Is it legal to sell a revised version of a PD software(0.01% original)?

Yes to all questions.

--
Joe Buck
jbuck@janus.berkeley.edu	 {uunet,ucbvax}!janus.berkeley.edu!jbuck

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