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Re: Copyleft vs Public Domain

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From: Tim Smith
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:05
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wollman@aix2.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:
>>Huh? in what sense is the PD source not readily available?
>
>1.  I create a PD program and pass it around to a few people (set A).
>2.  One of these people (B) creates a binary from my source and gives
>    it to another group of people (set C).
>
>A is the set of people who have access to the source.  C is the set of
>people who have access to the binary.  B = A\cap B = the set of people
>who have the binary and the source.  The people in C - B don't have
>access to the source, unless B chooses to give it to them.

The people in C-B can get the source from the people in set A.

--Tim Smith
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Subject: Re: Copyleft vs Public Domain
Date: 12 Jan 1993 03:05:21 GMT
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