Re: GS WorldView - May2000 Issue NEWS

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 29 Apr 2000 17:32:40 GMT, a2mg@aol.comNomail (The Apple II Mail
Group) wrote:

>Furthermore, the Lost Classics release notice contains limiations on future
>distrubution of the products containing changes. I took this to mean than
>updated versions (such as AppleWorks 5.1 versions and Y2K-compliant versions)
>could not be relased. I contacted Beagle Bros and they said this was not true
>at all. They placed no such limitation of their releases - this is not their
>wording at all. 

If the product has been reclassified as shareware or freeware then the
product is still owned and therefore no one can distribute a modified
version of it without the owner's permission.

However, if it was reclassified as public domain then anyone can do
anything they want with it.

>I am told that the limits in the freeware notice are a  holdover from past Lost
>Classics releases. It is an unfortunate one.

I think it is more of a holdover from the definition of the term
freeware.

>We (The Apple II Mail Group) have permission to upload any newer  versions of
>the Beagle Bros products, independent of any freeware notice other than a
>copyright ownership statement.

Then you have special permission from the owner to distribute modified
versions.  That doesn't mean I, for example, can do so because I don't
have permission.

>I hate to see a controversy rise over our favorite Apple II software products.

Unfortunately this seems to happen most often because people don't
think about what they are doing before they do it.  :-/

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