---- START NEW MESSAGE --- Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A5755D47007A; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:48:05 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <22.00CC5C5C@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:47:53 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 1721 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:47:47 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 9668; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:47:30 -0500 Received: from durango.natetech.com [216.17.150.117] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 430) via TCP with ESMTP ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:47:29 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by durango.natetech.com Received: from midair.natetech.com ([216.17.141.162] helo=192.168.16.30) by durango.natetech.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AmljO-0000ij-Je; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:23:38 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <005f01c3fd35$f9a65f30$8400a8c0@CP301356a> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <200401302026.41706.nate@natetech.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:26:41 -0700 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: Nate Duehr Organization: NateTech Subject: Re: [OT:] SCO lobbying Congress about Linux Comments: To: James Caska To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: <005f01c3fd35$f9a65f30$8400a8c0@CP301356a> Precedence: list X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 371856633 On Friday 27 February 2004 06:31 am, James Caska wrote: > >BTW what do you share, and under what license? > > www.muvium.com > www.virtualbreadboard.com > > Freeware and public domain.. No licenses > > James Caska > www.muvium.com > uVM - 'Java Bred for Embedded' So I can take Muvium As-Is, do a little marketing magic, change the name, call it Natevium and sell it for $1000 a copy to anyone I want. I can also make changes to it that make it completely useless and broken and call it muvium and give that away also and ruin your business when people download the wrong version from a Google search. PD is dangerous with software unless you absolutely don't care AT ALL about the code anymore -- throwaway code. That's the risk you run when something is in the PD. I have FULL rights to it, and can modify it OR NOT MODIFY IT and sell it as MY product. You don't have much respect for your software or your organization if you licensed it as PD. My opinion anyway... -- Nate Duehr, nate@natetech.com -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body .