Re: GBBS .. is it freeware/shareware or commercial?

["Steve Mentzer" <steve@crackershack.com>]

> This is why I want GBBS - I have already written an application called
> "BBSLink" that emulates a Hayes Compatible Modem and has a Telnet Server
> built in. If anyone wants a beta copy, it should be online @
> www.unnamedpcmuseum.com/bbslink in the next 24-48 hrs.
>  >>
>
>
> If it is wrtten in ACOS you will have to make sure
> that the program only goes to persons that have
> registered copies of the prgram.
>
>


Funny.

As I recal, unless you have stated in the license agreement that all source
code ***written by*** a licensed user is owned by the copyright holder of
GBBS/ACOS (being you), you have no right to tell anyone who they can
distribute *their code* too. Now the core of ACOS/SuperTac, etc are
non-distributable. That is indisputable. But if someone wrote their own core
code, you have no jurisdiction over it's distribution.

It is then job of the copyright holder to enforce licensing, and not people
who write the software for the platform.

Visual basic is a language copyrighted by Microsoft. I write VB code. I
distribute VB code. It is not unlawful for me to distribute said source code
to non-licensed users of Microsoft's Visual Studio development platform.