[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: mikeyterm

[Arthur Flexser]

This is baloney.  Mike Ward, the author, retained all rights to it, and he
permitted it to be freely distributed.  If Spectrum and/or Zebra asked Mike if
they could distribute it for the cost of media and shipping, I'm sure he said
okay, but that doesn't mean that either of them bought or possessed rights to it
or can inhibit its free distribution.  As Mike expressed it to me, the only
reason he didn't release it to the public domain was that he wanted to be able
to prevent others from being able to sell it at a profit.

Art

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Al Hartman wrote:

> Copyright doesn't expire that quickly. Having worked for two of the 
> compaines that licensed MikeyTerm (Spectrum Projects and Zebra Systems, 
> Inc.), you'd have to have gotten their approval as licensors of the 
> software to release it.
> 
> Bob Rosen doesn't give anyone anything for free...
> 
> Al