23 Nov
2004
23 Nov
'04
3:47 p.m.
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Richard A. Cini wrote:
Tonight, I looked at Volume 5 and in the CD table of
contents (link
above), I see "altair32 Project Altair Emulator.zip" and two other related
listings. As you all know, this is my baby and this person never had the
courtesy to ask my permission to distribute my albeit free software.
Am I crazy here? Should I contact this guy and ask him to remove it?
Should I ask him to place a link to the project page instead? How about
modifying the listing to include a "permission granted" message?
Any thoughts on this?
Well, it depends on how you distribute the altair32 project. Is it
freeware? Open source? As I've said before with the fellow who is
selling copies of Al's archive, it's a bit shameful but there's not much
that can be done for various reasons.
However, if your altair32 project is copyrighted by you then he is
certainly violating your rights. If it's GPL'd then probably not.
You might send him a note objecting to his doing this, but unless he's
actually violating your copyrights, there's not much to be done.
Shameful, yes. Actionable, most likely not.
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