In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>How is copyright applied when it belongs to a corporate identity, eg. >Psion or Microsoft? >My spell checker accepts Microsoft, but it doesn't accept Unix. I >wonder why? Copyright is there to protect the rights of the author or owner. Yet there is licensing, as a way of making income or of simply getting it more well known. Many software products now are making use of the licensing of other copyrights, as they are complex products, and it would be tedious to try to re-invent the wheel. With regard to your spell checker, it maybe that you haven't configured it to accept Unix. As Unix code tends to be universally acceptable. >On 5 Nov 2005, at 23:34, Colin Parsons wrote: >> >>> John Taylor wrote: >>> >>>> Geoff >>>> >>>> Quanta approached Psion years ago and they raised no objections. >>>> They regretted that they were unable to help as the source code had >>>> been mothballed, but if ever they had recourse to it they assured >>>> Quanta that they would let us have a copy. >>>> We were talking, if I remember correctly, about the XChange suite >>>> and >>>> not just Quill, though the enquiry centred on Quill. >>>> Patents have a limited life, it is a pity copyright doesn't too. >>> >>> AFAIK, copyright does have a limited life: it used to be/is >>> something like >>> author.death+50 years. However, in the world of software, >that is >>> effectively limitless. >>> >> Thanks to the EEC it is now Author Life + 70 years -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
