Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucsdhub!jack!crash!pnet01!haitex From: haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: CBM's Blessing? Give me a break... Message-ID: <3458@crash.cts.com> Date: 22 Sep 88 13:59:00 GMT Sender: news@crash.cts.com Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA Lines: 34 ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >In article <3447@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes: >>Also, having read the Working group proposal, what incentive do we have to >>join? [ ... ] >> > Fame, something to put on your resume, adoration from Amiga >developers everywhere. > > I can't see Commodore being completely unappreciative of a valuable >contribution to their products, nor would I expect people to turn over such >projects to Commodore without some sort of renumeration. > Sure, but from what I read in the Working Groups proposal, it was not clear that the participants in the project had any rights to the resulting code. It is one thing to do something and make it PD, and quite another to be part of a WG. I'd hate to have to ask Commodore for the write to use my own code :^(. I'm not saying that this was the intent of the proposal, but I think it probably made a pass through the attorney's office at some point. I don't think I could even participate in such a thing without violating other contractual obligations. Thanks, Wade. UUCP: {cbosgd, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, nosc}!crash!pnet01!haitex ARPA: crash!pnet01!haitex@nosc.mil INET: haitex@pnet01.CTS.COM Opionions expressed are mine, and not necessarily those of my employer.