On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Kevin S. Goff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A question for both Rick and Ed.... > > Do you recall what year did you start writing for Pinnacle/FoxTalk, and > in what year you signed your author agreements? >
Neither Rick nor Ed, but I first signed on July 27, 1992. It's a pretty standard tech journal agreement at the time. Pinnacle had the rights to publish the article and reprint in the FoxTalk jounal and distribute it and the source code (on disk). There's enough key words and tricky phrases in that single sentence to argue the for-profit distribution under a different name for profit may not have been included, and rights not granted are explicitly retained by the authors. I, for one, would be glad to sign a new agreement with FoxRockX allowing them commercial distribution if they, in turn, would agree to me relicensing my articles under a Creative Commons license. No harm, no foul on either side, and I'd be please to see the articles preserved for historical reasons. But I'm also willing to let sleeping dogs lie. If anyone really wants to know how to make a 16-color (and blinking!) ANSI color startup screen for their FoxPro DOS application, I'll be glad to point them to the original article <s>. -- Ted Roche Member, National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981, AFL-CIO _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
