It seems that copyright offers the protection that Brent wants. When
you come up with 2.0 (you can't copyright something unless it is
substantially new) include a copyright notice with liberal terms of use.
Although some flames will emerge, basically all this means is that you
have protection against someone trying to sell your code.
Lots of people state that their software is public domain, but then try
to attach conditions. Not valid. If it's PD anyone can use it as they
wish, including scavenging code and selling it.
All the stuff I write is freeware, but copyrighted. Even then I've
found consultants trying to sell it back to the Canadian government!
Bill Silvert
># > My intent has always been to make Majordomo available to anyone who
># > wanted to use or enhance it, as long as they don't try to unfairly
># > profit from my efforts in originally developing it and the efforts of
># > the many people who have since improved upon and supported it.
>
>Basicly, I would be annoyed if somebody made a profit by selling the
>code, by itself or as part of some other package, without really having
>done anything but pick it up off the FTP server and selling it to some
>unwitting customer.
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Bill Silvert at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca
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