Re: Building An Apple ][ Software Archive

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

I have to go along with Paul and ask you what your source is for your
statement that Freeware is *usually* copyrighted. I'd bet big bucks that
darned little Freeware has actually been copyrighted. There's not really a
big point to actually doing it since there is virtually no *enforceable*
distinction between Freeware and public domain. Freeware is nothing more
than an appeal to the gentlefolk among us to abide by the author's wishes.

Tom Zuchowski

"Roy and/or Janet Miller" <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote in message
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> Arkain wrote:
>
> > Frank's only mistake was concluding that "freeware" is always
necessarily
> > copyrighted.
>
> I don't think Frank was mistaken. The term "freeware" *usually* is used to
> distinguish software that is copyrighted from other copyrighted software:
> shareware or commercial. If software isn't copyrighted, then it is public
> domain, a different category.
>
> Roy
>
> > The conflicting examples that you and he pulled is proof that
> > this is not the case. While freeware is almost always copyrighted, the
> > matter of copyright has little to do with the freeware term.
> >
> > Arkain