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On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:41:46 +0100, Jason Clifford <jason@ukpost.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Simon Kinahan wrote:
>
>> > You are simply trying to claim rights to other people's work.
>> 
>> And fair enough I say. Copyright is not an inalienable right. There is no
>> universal agreement that copying other people's work is bad. All of
>> science, and a considerable amount of engineering, including that of
>> software, is based on copying and modification of other people's ideas. The
>> distinction between that and the copying of actaul source text seems to me
>> to only be one of enforcability.
>
>Copying someone's work is not the issue as such. The issue is whether a
>software developer has the right to decide for himself whether or not to
>release his product source code and whether that developer should have the
>right to charge for his product.

	Actually, this sort of disclosure would normally be considered
	a necessary part of the bargain that the author would enter into
	with the state to allow for the state to enforce his interests.

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