From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aae53a1e1005187e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Subject: Re: Ada 83 Booch components Date: 2000/03/22 Message-ID: <8bavjr$aik1@news.cis.okstate.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 600949396 References: <953594844.1480.0.nnrp-11.9e9848fa@news.demon.co.uk> <38D6CB9D.6342@li.net> <38D7CB35.476AE4FA@res.raytheon.com> <8b959t$9um$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: Oklahoma State University User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:49:06 GMT, Robert Dewar wrote: >In article <38D7CB35.476AE4FA@res.raytheon.com>, > John J Cupak Jr wrote: >> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >> --------------15C30E9028A9B195481ABA61 >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> >> 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