Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihnp4!ihlpe!daryl
From: daryl@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Daryl Monge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: GIF
Summary: not public domain?
Message-ID: <3116@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Jul 88 20:46:08 GMT
References: <8807080005.AA02654@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Engineering Design Process Department, AT&T Bell Labs
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In article <8807080005.AA02654@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, SHAFFERJ@BKNLVMS.BITNET ("Jim Shaffer, Jr.") writes:
> An Atari 8-bit GIF viewer is on CompuServe.
> I'm assuming that it's public-domain, since it's in their data libraries.
> But then again, Antic has files in Compu$erve's data libraries and they're
> not PD.

Isn't it true that Compu$erve specifically states that information on its 
machines is NOT public domain?  After all, if a few persons always post
the good stuff from their libraries, no one has the incentive to subscribe.

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