Subject: Re: copyright issue
To: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com>
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/15/1997 12:59:35
> Lemon, I think, wrote:
> > >Man, can you understand the license is for people who _don't ask
> > >Chris for anything else_, people who just steal his code w/o mention
I didn't write that. I don't write like that.
> Ah. So I can contribute code with license terms that say you must give
> me your firstborn, and that's OK as long as a promise that I'll give
> waivers to the right people? Why should we trust Chris to give the right
> people waivers, when he isn't trusting any of us to give him credit?
No, that wouldn't be okay. Obviously.
> And as I said before, what if everyone does this? You expect us to get
> waivers from a hundred people?
No, you don't have to get waivers. Just provide credit as required.
Get waivers if you need them enough to go to the trouble.
_MelloN_