Re: [Ql-Users] Copyright

2016-07-09 Thread Rich Mellor (RWAP)
> On July 9, 2016 at 5:41 PM Lee Privett wrote: > > > There is an interesting bit on copyright that's list four things relating > to Software. One covers the code as literary, the other covers the output > from code as far as I can ascertain. > > The code is a literary

Re: [Ql-Users] Copyright

2016-07-09 Thread Lee Privett
There is an interesting bit on copyright that's list four things relating to Software. One covers the code as literary, the other covers the output from code as far as I can ascertain. The code is a literary work The on-screen display could be an artistic work The soundtracks are musical works

Re: [Ql-Users] Copyright

2016-07-09 Thread Rich Mellor (RWAP)
> On July 9, 2016 at 4:26 PM Wolf wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Entering the sordid topic of coin, it is difficult to imagine that it would > > profit any originator of a QL program to seek recompense from the courts for > > infringement of copyright. Consider the value of past

Re: [Ql-Users] Copyright

2016-07-09 Thread Wolf
Hi Colin, When a member of the Bristol Group, I remember being told that any program lodged in the QL system automatically became public domain. Can that be confirmed? No it can't. Very broadly speaking, if someone writes a piece of software, then someone has a copyright to it -

Re: [Ql-Users] Copyright

2016-07-09 Thread Dilwyn Jones
When a member of the Bristol Group, I remember being told that any program lodged in the QL system automatically became public domain. Can that be confirmed? Define "QL system"? Don't understand that, unless what they meant was that as soon as you made a program available in some way, widespread

Re: [Ql-Users] Copyright

2016-07-09 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Yes, why Fred Toussi does not make this program freeware and why he does not make the way public, how T87 saves its documents... I will never understand. Noone sells it today, nor does anyone develops driver for it. Is this the way? Surely not. Cheers...Ralf - Original Message -

Re: [Ql-Users] Copyright

2016-07-09 Thread Peter Graf
Colin McKay wrote: > As regards the QL dying, to me the main factor for this is the inability of > the QL community to create a system of durable software which would enable > the purchaser of a machine (emulator) to instantly have a day-to-day > coherent usable collection of programs not prone

[Ql-Users] Copyright

2016-07-09 Thread Colin McKay
When a member of the Bristol Group, I remember being told that any program lodged in the QL system automatically became public domain. Can that be confirmed? Whilst searching the web, one site virtually stated that anything a person produces is automatically subject to copyright. Another site

[Ql-Users] Copyright

2016-07-07 Thread Colin McKay
Has copyright in the electronic sense been investigated? An author publishes an article, and an individual makes one copy of it for only his use. That is allowable, but there could be qualifications of the situation. Colin McKay ___ QL-Users