[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: mikeyterm

[Mike Ortloff]

Welp, there are 345 separate commands, programs etc under just one directory on RTSI, I recognize many of these as s/w I paid for back in the day. Heck, NitrOS/9 =was= commercial s/w once.

It would be nice to see what the copyright status of a DECB telecom program is compared to OSs and compilers, document files and schematics.

GregEterm, Ultimaterm, TwiliteTerm and a few I don't recognize are all up

Best get to work pulling down the archive boyz ;)

=M0=

--- On Wed, 9/17/08, shadow at shadowgard.com <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
From: shadow at shadowgard.com <shadow at shadowgard.com>
Subject: Re: [Color Computer] Re: mikeyterm
To: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 9:01 PM










    
            On 17 Sep 2008 at 22:08, Al Hartman wrote:



> Copyright doesn't expire that quickly.



Yep. In fact given when the term was changed, *no* personal computer 

software copyright is going to expire (in the US at least) before 

2025. Might even be 2050.



Term is either 50 or 75 years for copyright not owned by the author 

(I forget which). Thus nothing written after 1975 would expire before 

the years I gave above.



For stuff where the author has the copyrigt, the clock doesn't start 

until the author *dies*.



so unless the author has placed the software in the public domain, 

you are violatimng copyright unless you have his permission.



Oh yeah, if someone *other* than the author say it's in the public 

domain and you distribute it, relying on their advice and they are 

wrong, you are still legally liable for the infringement.



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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)

shadow at shadowgard dot com