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From: jlg@lanl-a.UUCP
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Subject: Privateers
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Date: Thu, 2-Jun-83 12:05:29 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  2 12:05:29 1983
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I suppose a privateer I software would be someone who obtains (legally or
illegally) some software and makes monor changes to it.  This 'new' program
can then be copyrighted and sold as a new product.  The problem is that it
is very difficult to prove that slightly altered software was not an original
developement of the privateer.  I suspect that much of the software available
today is privateered public domain software.