Re: About 1WSW's recent PR attempts...

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <2oi8h8$j8j@news.service.uci.edu> eaiu184@rigel.oac.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes:

>>getting to the point where 1WSW is preparing to take legal action regarding
>>the theft of Dr.Tom's experiments and their upload. Just think if suddenly
>>any program you modified to try and learn programming showed up as a
>>"release" by you on a BBS. Those programs were _never_ releases.
>
>Okay, does this mean if I take, oh let's see, Jawaid's gno/me, and
>sector edit it, and call it Oh-gno, then it becomes mine?  What if
>I were to upload it to my own bbs, calling a gno/me compatible unix 
>environment, as freeware?  Is this okay too?  Last thing: if Jawaid
>finds out, and threatens to sue me, can I say, hey, it's not my fault,
>it was never meant to get out.

Oh-gno would be a better name ;-)  ;-)  ;-)

Seriously, where in the copyright law does it say that sector editing your
name into a program gives you the right to sue and prevent it's distribution?
Seems to me that right rests solely with the original authors/publishers.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong :)

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