🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks to all who replied.  This copyright stuff is real interesting.  I
like Bela Lubkin's assessment:

> Legal restrictions and legalese are for nasty people.  The rest of us
> need only abide by the wishes of the natural owners of the item (the
> mush source, in this case) without worrying about the "legal" status of
> those wishes.

And thanks to Bart Schaefer -- but about your analogy:

> If you bought a VHS copy of _Star_Trek_II_, re-
> arranged the scenes, copied it onto Beta-format tapes with your mother's
> voice dubbed in over Riccardo Montalban, and started selling it as
> _The_Wrath_of_Mom_, you'd be in violation of Paramount's copyright.

I'd venture, however, that I'd get big time laughs from Paramount and not
a suit.  I wonder how I can crank out a "Mom's User's Shell"...

      Mike Jipping
      Hope College Department of Computer Science
      jipping@cs.hope.edu  (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE)

      "Koo koo ka choo"
                  -- Simon and Garfunkel, "Mrs. Robinson"