At 15:42 15/08/02, you wrote:
I *really* hate to bring this up again, but I need to ask your
opinions...I'll paste the below and I'd be very interested in your
opinions either on or off list, especially if you've ever developed or
published SAM software in the past. It's in relation to the File Library
I'm putting together for the SC site.
There's two camps in the copyright arguement - those who don't give a
monkeys about copyright on SAM software, see it as a dead machine and
think all its software should be free. Then there's the people who stick
to the copyrights religiously (at least in public!) and see no way round
it. I'm going to try and adopt a sensible compromise with copyrighted
software. I will make every reasonable effort to get in touch with the
author and/or publisher to seek permission to make the software available
for download. If I fail to make contact, I will post on the mailing list,
Usenet and this website, asking people to help me out. If after a further
month, I still have not made contact with those involved, I will assume
it's okay to make the software available. People's opinions will be taken
into account, so that if it's reckoned that the author would not the
software distributed, that's the way it will stay as far as this site is
concerned. It's basically an attempt to keep SAM software available where
possible, without annoying people.
Thanks for any opinions...
I've been a bit quiet lately but I thought I'd just chirp in - I support
your plan Colin, copyrighted material retains copyright, but if no-one can
be bothered to enforce it, even if you seek them out for two months, ignore it.
Tobermory - still updating weekly at www.cookingcircle.co.uk
