Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Subject: Re: v20i052:  notation - chess text handler, Part01/04
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.163649.23102@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
References: <csm-v20i052=notation.001358@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 16:36:49 GMT

In article <csm-v20i052=notation.001358@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM>
Henry.Thomas@irisa.fr writes: 
[ Wow, how about that wild message-id! ]
>
> Submitted-by: Henry Thomas <hthomas@irisa.fr>
> Posting-number: Volume 20, Issue 52
> Archive-name: notation/part01
> Supersedes: notation: Volume 18, Issue 12-14
>[....]
> ** COPYRIGHT
>   This is a freeware program. Commercial use is prohibited. It is free
> for non-commercial use.  You have the right to modify it, give it,
> provided you don't modify the copyright notice and my name still
> remains clearly indicated. For the others packages (Cheq and chess
> font) refer to the original copyright notice.
>[....]
> Henry Thomas - IRISA 		 - E-mail: Henry.Thomas@irisa.fr 
> Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu - Phone: (+33)99 36 20 00 +549  
> 35042 RENNES CEDEX FRANCE 	 - Fax: (+33)99 38 38 32 Telex: UNIRISA 950473F
> Telex Atlas X400: /X121=842950473/@atlas.fr, Fax:/X121=200099383832/@atlas.fr

You can't do that, at least on this side of the pond.

Copyright is the "right to copy", not the "right to use", and if you
give away copies, prior to gaining some form of acceptance to your
"licence", you can't restrict the use of those copies.

On the other hand, what you might mean is that it is free to give away
copies (and/or the original) to non-commercial third parties, but
copies (and/or the original) may not be sold.

(Not that I can see any great commercial application for your
software, mind you.... :-)
-- 
							Greg A. Woods
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