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Article #5379Re: What does "free" mean, eh? (Re: Scareware)
From: Richard Foulk
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 1990 01:12
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 1990 01:12
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>You can't "steal" many of my freeware programs and pretend you wrote them, but >I don't require that you make any program you incorporate them in freeware >as well. For example, I require that anyone using my Amiga file requestor >credit me (as in, file requestor by Peter da Silva somewhere in the docs), but >otherwise they're free to use it for any purpose. Other stuff I've written is >completely PD, but DP and freeware aren't synonymous. 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. -- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!pegasus!richard From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: What does "free" mean, eh? (Re: Scareware) Message-ID: <1990Mar10.011221.29457@pegasus.com> Date: 10 Mar 90 01:12:21 GMT References: <14010@s.ms.uky.edu> <125816@midas.UUCP> <635@magnus.Hotline.Com> <34812@watmath.waterloo.edu> <10612@hoptoad.uucp> <TU129ZCxds13@ficc.uu.net> <18111@rpp386.cactus.org> <KJ22LLGxds13@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: richard@pegasus.UUCP (Richard Foulk) Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu Lines: 14