In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 01/18/2006
at 08:44 AM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Hum, good question. I don't know. I think that I'm a bit sensitive
>about copyright due to the fact that I'm a Linux user at home and
>many commercial software vendors (and others) raise such a hew and
>cry about how Linux people have no concern for copyright and violate
>it with gay abandon (aka "they" maintain that Linux people tend to
>pirate other people's work).
My experience has been that the pirates are mostly windoze users.
BTW, has anybody actually looked at the manual to see whether it is
copyrighted and whether it explicitly allows copying the code?
Assuming that you are talking about the OS/360 SSP and not the later
program product versions, there may not be a legal issue at all,
regardless of date.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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