From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm
Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm
Title: public domain software control
Article-I.D.: ucb.1580
Posted: Fri Jul 23 18:48:40 1982
Received: Mon Jul 26 06:28:05 1982

>From decvax!duke!uok!uokvax!mwm@Ucb-C70 Fri Jul 23 18:48:28 1982
In addition to what lauren pointed at, let's take the case that
apparently caused a lot of flack: the reselling of various versions of
Ron Cain's small C compiler. In most cases, the resellers have taken
the compiler, extended it, and are reselling the result. These people
want to be paid for that work, and I can't say that I blame them.
Especially those who credit Ron (which some do in their advertising).

An analogous situation exists for software that you pay for. If you've
looked into getting source to one of the OEM Eunices, you here things
like "Well, we want $6000 for it, and we can only sell it if you
already have a Western source license."  Once again, these people want
to get paid for there work. Since they started with something they paid
for, nobody bitches. I don't see that what they are doing is all that
different from what is being done to public domain software.

	mike