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Article #34927Re: GEM for Sozobon C
From: Matthew Eric Seitz
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 1988 20:06
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 1988 20:06
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In article <17608@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> acm@cs.ucla.edu (Association for Computing Machinery) writes: >In article <651@stag.UUCP> to_stdnet@stag.UUCP writes: >Unless I'm mistaken, your holding a copyright to a program simply means you >are the only person who has the right to make money from it. The purpose >for many public domain copyright notices is to keep certain people from selling >your product while claiming that they developed it. This is in contrast to >having the sole right to copy it, despite how it sounds. I think you're mistaken. Copyright means having the sole right to copy something. The principle behind this is that the copyright holder should be paid for each copy in use. If copyright only meant you can't sell something for a profit, there would be nothing illegal in passing out free copies of Word Perfect to your friends or in posting it to free bulletin boards. >Plinio Barbeito Matt Seitz seitz@cory.berkeley.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!seitz From: seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Matthew Eric Seitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GEM for Sozobon C Message-ID: <7212@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 8 Nov 88 20:06:09 GMT References: <651@stag.UUCP> <17608@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Matthew Eric Seitz) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 19