Re: GS WorldView - May2000 Issue NEWS

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 28 Apr 2000 23:10:26 GMT, cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) wrote:

>While I was on the Apple2 and A2Pro Delphi forums reading the two forums
>messageboards, I noticed that Howard Katz was requesting the last version
>available of BeagleWrite IIgs, as it�s now a freeware - for uploads as a
>ShrinkIt archive to the Delphi Apple2 and A2Pro archive libraries. 
>Nobody there seemed to have it to furnish.
>
>The GS WorldView May2000 online ezine issue is pleased to provide
>BeagleWrite IIgs v3.2 as such for public access and download, along
>with; BeagleWrite IIgs Utilities and BeagleGSDA (IIgs Desk Accessories),
>BeagleWriteGS updates text file, BeagleDrawGS v1.3 and several screen
>captures of each in color JPEG graphic format.
>
>The ShrinkIt Disk (SDK) archives can be downloaded from within the
>folder of the following URL.
>
>http://www.grin.net/~cturley/gsezine/GS.WorldView/v2000/May/Archives/
>
>As freeware releases these have also been uploaded to our Apple2 public
>ftp site Ground also.

I'm not intentionally posting this to stir the fires but I thought the
general public might like to know what Howard Katz had to say about
this situation.  After all, he was the one who talked to the copyright
owners and got them to reclassify BeagleWriteGS as freeware so he
would be the one to know.

Here is a quote from an e-mail I got from Howard about the Freeware
release notice that is included in all the reclassifications obtained
by the Lost Classics Project:

    Please note that this notice was what was approved and
    requested for each release by Mark SImonsen.  This
    covers all the titles that B.Bros held direct copyright
    to.  For those titlese that were copyrighted by
    individual programmers, I either have, or am in the
    process of contacting these folk to get releases for
    their titles.  So far, none of the people I've contacted
    have NOT wanted such a notice placed in the archive, and
    each of them have approved the wording prior to public
    release.

and here is what he had to say about Mr. Turley making a version of
the program, without the notice, available to the public:

    If Tom Turley is going ahead and posting some of the
    software without the freeware notices requested by the
    authors/copyright holders, this is in violation of the
    agreements I have with those folk and could possibly
    cause the freeware status to be revoked.

I still have yet to check to see if the Beagle desk accessories or
BeagleDrawGS have been reclassified yet.

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