[Coco] Announcement re Ved, VPrint

Frank Pittel fwp at deepthought.com
Fri Nov 14 10:43:12 EST 2014


On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:17:10PM -0800, tim lindner wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > *  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!*"
> 
> Putting something in the "Public Domain" and "Don't make any money
> from my labors" are antithetical.
> 
> I understand what he means, but there are legal consequences to this ambiguity.

Sadly there's no ambiguity. By putting into public domain all rights to control
what is done with it are gone.

While I'm new to the Coco "community" I have found the members (for some definition
of members) to be honorable and ethical and will respect Bob's wishes.

The Other Frank


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