Re: Asimov (was: Re: Beagle Brothers

["Charles T. Turley" <cturley@wco.com>]

shoppa@alph02.triumf.ca (Tim Shoppa)
Organization:TRIUMF, Canada's National Meson Facility 

wrote and requested:

("Freeware" is an awfully vague term.  If the software is copyrighted -
as the Beagle Bros stuff is - the copyright owner has every right to
limit distribution in whatever way they feel like.  If the software
has been placed in the public domain - something that can either be
done by the copyright holder, or through expiration of the copyright,
then anyone can do whatever they want with it.

When you say "the Beagle Oldies archives that are freeware", what
exactly does your usage of the word "freeware" mean?)

I reply: 

Vague! perhaps to you Mr. Shoppa it's vague. But I never have seen 
freeware as a vague term, in any respect! I don't see anything at all 
vague about the freeware status or definition of the word or the meaning 
of the word - as used. Freeware is a simply legal defined term and 
should be easy to understand by anybody, so is the general definition of 
freeware and my usage of the word is exactly as the general definition 
for freeware intends it to be used. 

Freeware is software that is copyrighted but, has been placed for access 
to the public for FREE by the author. Additional restrictions may also 
be placed on its distribution - if the author so desires.

See the text file freeware notices concerning the Beagle Bros. Apple II 
shrinkit archives, that were obtained in exact copies from AOL, that are 
now in the Beagle.Oldies folder within the upload folder on Ground, for 
a full discription of the authors restrictions concerning the freeware 
status and defined distributions of those archives. 

BTW - to make certain that Mr. Kohn and others of his nature and like 
him don't annoy my server administrator with trivial complaints concerning 
the Beagle Oldies archives, etc. and so on - the Beagle Oldie archives are 
no longer on my web site!

Cheers,
Tom