at the temporal coordinates: 9/7/01 1:53 PM, the entity known as McComb
Keith at KMcComb_at_nycboe.net conveyed the following:
> I think we should agree to disagree here. Everyone has slightly
> different ideas, and slightly different ways of expressing themselves.
> It seems to me that if a reasonable effort to contact to owner of the
> copyright is made (phone calls, letters, e-mails), and no response is
> forthcoming, then the software should be considered abandoned. (And
> there should be multiples of each attempt, IMHO. One try doesn;t cut it
> in my book.)
The point of debate, as I understand it (aside from those who weren't paying
attention or are new to the list and missed the last several months) is that
essentially everyone on the list is advocating going to every effort we can
collectively think of to contact the copyright holder -- but what happens
then??? Technically, current copyright law would seem to say that's just
too bad and we can never ever use those packages, and some argue quite
forcefully it would be heinous behavior to krak these packages and
distribute them. Others say essentially, "no harm, no foul". That is what
the major portion of this discussion is about.
- Eric.
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