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Article #1720Re: Copyleft vs Public Domain
From: Tim Smith
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:05
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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