On 11/8/01 3:50 PM, "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Under open-source licenses, you do own your copy. For those > of you who seek novel experiences, go and buy a CD-ROM of a > Linux or BSD distro; you will have, for perhaps the first > time, bought software. As someone with some code on Open Source disks I'm afraid I can't agree. They may own the media. They may own the very generous rights that I granted them in the license. They certainly own any improvements that they may have made to the original program. But the original program is still mine. I never sold software and I never agreed that purchasers of a CD would get any rights beyond what were explicitly stated in the license. Now for the two programs that I released under the BSD or MIT license that may be a distinction that doesn't make a difference, but for all the rest there is a real difference. I'm the only one who can take the project private. -- C++: The power, elegance and simplicity of a hand grenade. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3