[Coco] $0.25 per what ?

Mannequin* mannslists at invigorated.org
Fri Jul 8 16:45:12 EDT 2005


On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:21:57 -0700
"John R. Hogerhuis" <jhoger at pobox.com> wrote:

...
> > Lonnie isn't in it for the bucks. He's letting this go for less that what
> > his lawyer suggested. All he's doing by keeping a price on it, is keeping up
> > the copyrights. If he were to let this go for nothing, then, from what I
> > understand, that would legally be letting the copyrights go and turning it
> > over to public domain.
> > 
> 
> That's not correct. Otherwise, for example, the GPL and BSD licenses
> wouldn't work. You can give copies of copyrighted works away, or grant
> others a license to make copies regardless of price.
...

> -- John.

John, you are right. I misread something along the way. The charge is strictly
for keeping the copyrights and trademarks legal.

-M.



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