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Re: Public Domain S/W

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From: Charles Bryant
Date: Tue, 07 May 1991 10:41
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In article <42034@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>You can do whatever you want with public domain software, legally.
>You can sell it, modify it, give it away, or whatever.  That's
>what public domain means - no one owns any rights to it.

That may be the case in the US, but in some places the author has the
right to be identified as such. This right cannot be given away.

And about the Maxwell's Demon DA for the Mac...
>For example, you
>could rename it from "Maxwell" to "Racial Purity", put little swastikas
>in the white balls instead of the smiley faces, label one side of the box
>"Africa", and change the instructions to read "Try to put the niggers back
>in Africa where they belong".  And you could leave my name on it.

I would expect that you would be able to take a civil action for
defamation.
-- 
Charles Bryant (ch@dce.ie)
--
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From: ch@dce.ie (Charles Bryant)
Newsgroups: ca.general,ba.general,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Public Domain S/W
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Date: 7 May 91 10:41:56 GMT
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