Books I've bought from the UK say this in the front. Seems a bit strict, but is this the same thing?
"This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser." -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gerhard Adam Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 12:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor? >.Copyright applies to any creative work (creative in a fairly broad >sense of > the word). > The listing is undoubtedly licensed material of IBM, and would > undoubtedly be subject to copyright. No one is disputing the copyright, nor the copyright holder. There's no attempt here to capitalize on the copyrighted work nor to profit from its use. Copyright protection does not preclude redistributing the information or sharing it with someone else. The copyright isn't being threatened and a copyright is not a license. A book is copyrighted, but I can easily sell it, without violating copyright laws because that is how books are used. This is precisely what happens when one downloads a PDF from the IBM web-site. It is certainly copyrighted material, but it is not a copyright violation to send a copy of it in an e-mail to someone else. The information has been made publicly available, so the ideas are copyrighted, but not the physical distribution media itself. The listing was made freely available [as was the source code] without any apparent separate agreement, so the hardcopy doesn't involve any particular licensing issues. Simply having a printed copy does not violate any copyright laws unless that is expressly indicated in the terms and conditions, again this is unlikely. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
