[DGD] Problem with call_other()

[Noah Gibbs]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, David Jackson wrote:
> I'm more of the opinion that, if it's sitting in my editor, and I can edit it, 
> save it, and compile it, then whatever I do with it is ok, until I 
> re-distribute it.  And redistribution is only sacred if there's a piece of 
> tech there that I can't create from scratch.

  Generally correct.  "Fair use" gives you some rights in this direction,
I believe.  But "redistribution is only sacred if there's a piece...I
can't create from scratch" isn't actually true.  It's not a valid legal
defense, I mean.  Put it this way -- if you could somehow get the source
for MS-Windows, redistributing only the chunks that Linux already does
still isn't kosher.  It's copyrighted, so the fact that there's already a
public equivalent (or you can already do the equivalent) doesn't mean it's
not copyrighted.  For the same reason, a really good author can't
redistributed the work of a really bad author free of charge :-)

> But, I understand the sentiment, and agree, which is why I also believe in 
> freely distributed patches, diff files, open source, etc.

  Yup.  Everything I've written for DGD, text or code, is public
domain.  That goes for my web site and for Phantasmal.

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