18 Mar
2008
18 Mar
'08
11:16 p.m.
> "The purpose of the internet is for the free
sharing and exchange of
> other people's intellectual property." ?
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Antonio Carlini wrote:
To whom should you attribute? The corporation that
originally produced
the work or whoever scanned it? Even if you make use of (for example)
yes, the "true" ownership is often not the current availability.
Occasionally, a company will go ahead and explicitly move stuff to public
domain. Unfortunately, many will never do that, and a significant part of
what is available to us relies on the owner of the copyright not giving a
shit. There is a popular [FALSE] myth that "abandonware" automagically
becomes public domain.
If I give somebody a copy of PC-DOS 1.00, then I rely on IBM and Microsoft
not caring about the infringement.
On the other hand, I have had to deal with people copying and selling
copies of commercial software that I was still trying to pay the bills
with.
If RMS has some personal licence that is not the GPL,
then you may
be right. But if you mean the GPL, then you are wrong. I most certainly
can charge for it and I can incorporate it into my software. I just have
to
comply with the terms of the licence (mostly making _all_ the sources
available).
My mistake, I was thinking in terms of his policies (and rants) in the
1980s.
Did somebody eventually knock some sense into him?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com