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Subject: Re: [ql-users] SMSQ/E proposals
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> On Thu, 30 May 2002, dndsystems1 wrote:
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> > Just a quick note on this, the version numbers are copyright
beyond
> > 2.xx until 8 or 9? according to Rich Mellor. It's a long time
since I
> > looked at this, no doubt he can give us all that info again so
Rich
> > Mellor 'come on down'.
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> Under the Berne Convention, and therefore international copyright
law,
> numbers cannot be copyrighted.
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> Dave
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Hi Dave
right, but the variants of O/S that the numbers refer to are copyright
so the numbers are an identification of O/S with its own copyright.
version 1.xx in an O/S will mean to us (QL users) that this is QDOS
(as far as the program running is concerned) O/S. 2.xx will be SMSQ/E.
Other numbers mean other variants of QDOS. This is why, as explained
to me, SMSQ/E cannot increment over 2.xx as we have encroached upon
another O/S by using its id.
Personaly speaking, version 1.00 of a new O/S title is fine by me and
disregard all previous O/S versions, I don't mind.
Dennis - D&D Systems
