Subject: Re: qddvx101.zip availability
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 92 19:06:34 MDT
From: arrakis!thor AT uunet DOT UU DOT NET (Robert B. Hood)


Believe it or not, DJ Delorie said:
> 
> Clarkson University is currently investigating the legalities of
> making commercial software (such as qddvx101.zip may be) available on
> the Internet from their machines.
[...]

I was not aware that these libraries were "commercial" in nature.  Nowhere
in the documentation (at least, that I could see) does it say anything
concerning this, nor is there any requested payment or reimbursement
either, as is typical of ShareWare products (an order above these
libraries, I think, and they themselves are not strictly "commercial"
in nature).

Other software entities have released software/libraries/documentation
for their _commercial_ products with nothing more than a copyright notice
to *prevent* commercialized usage, not *promote* it.  And this package
was the same; a CONTRIBution to another non-commercial system.

This sounds like management-types sticking their noses in where they don't
belong or understand simply because they have nothing better to do.  But, I
guess its their machine...

...I'm just glad I got 'hold of it before the bureaucracy -- another item,
like commercial software, that isn't needed or wanted on the Internet...

Bob
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