on 24/10/01 1:44 pm, Michael Beck at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I don't know, but if had a super-cool grid class, >I certainly would like the copyright to protect me from anyone >buying my grid, creating a subclass, and then marketing it against >me.
Unless they distribute your code without negotiating a deal with you (which is piracy), people will still need to buy your class in order to use the oo-derived class. So this would drive sales of your work and increase your profits rather than reduce them. - Rob. -- Rob Myers http://www.robmyers.org/ "I never made a painting as a work of art. It's all research" - Picasso. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3

