[Coco] Announcement re Ved, VPrint

[Tormod Volden]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I got this reply from Bob just now.  He has blessed us with this quote:
>
> "I have no way to make any retail copies of the programs and don't even
> know if I still have readable source code. And, it's been a very long time
> since I made a nickle from any of this ... so ... here's the announcement
> you can pass along to the CoCo group:
>
> *  Effective immediately (Nov 13, 2014) all of my OS9 and Color Computer
> programs are released into the public domain. Feel free to trade and copy.
> Just don't make any money from my labors!*"

Legally speaking, he should have put it under some license of some
sort if wants to forbid commercial redistribution. Public domain is
public domain.

Tormod (IANAL)