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In article <9BmHeB14w164w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible) writes:
> >   Guess what: nothing prevents you (to my knowledge) from making a
> > copyleft'ed release and also selling rights to software you have
> > created. The copyleft prevents people from using your code without
> > consulting you. 
> 
> Yeah, but a plain old copyright notice could do the job just as well.

I doubt this. Look at TeX. ``Usually well informed sources'' told me
that its code is used in several places (ie, in several commercial
systems) without having the author asked for. And there *is* a
copyright. Even worse, there were and are systems out calling
themselves TeX which do not pass the trip test. This clearly
invalidates the condition under which this trademark may be used.
   And, please, do not tell me that the author (ie, DEK) or the
trademark holder (ie, the AMS) could have gone to court with this.
They are not companies like Apple with a bunch of lawyers only
waiting for work...

--
Joachim
Darmstadt, Germany
<schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>