Re: Ada 83 Booch components

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:49:06 GMT, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <38D7CB35.476AE4FA@res.raytheon.com>,
>  John J Cupak Jr <John_J_Cupak@res.raytheon.com> wrote:
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>> We've got 'em... now, if I can figure out if we can give up a
>copy.
>
>
>Well of course you can't. They are copyrighted, and absent a
>specific license from the copyright holder, you can't make a
>copy let alone give it to someone else. It is not good enough
>to hear third hand that Grady says it's OK with him (even if
>he is indeed the copyright holder of record).

If you have permission from the copyright holder to copy it,
you have permission to copy it. It doesn't matter whether it's
a formal license or whether you got it first hand. (How many people
have first hand approval from any of the Linux copyright holders
to copy Linux?) Now a formal license in the handwriting of the author
would make it clearer, but if the author tells you can copy it,
you can.

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
   -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU