[DECtalk] thinking of legal gray areas with licenses

[joshknnd1982 at gmail.com]

It would be interesting to find out who has it. I'm sure corell still holds the copyright to word perfect 5.1 also. 

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From: Dectalk <dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com> On Behalf Of Karen Lewellen
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2023 23:52
To: DECtalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] thinking of legal gray areas with licenses

Now that I have finally moved, i intend asking the  Library of congress for a means to discover just who has  copyright these days.



On Sun, 19 Mar 2023, Tom Morris wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 11:36 AM <joshknnd1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I think at this point decTalk is more like abandoned freeware and or shareware. I guess its like freeware or shareware with source code.
>
> There's really nothing "grey" about it. The code is copyrighted
> intellectual property. It was shared by someone who had legal access
> to it as part of their job, in violation of their employee agreement.
>
> It might be possible for someone to convince the copyright holders to
> release it under an open source license or to provide free binary
> licenses like was done with the VMS Hobbyist program, but, as far as
> I'm aware, none of that has happened.
>
> Whether or not anyone is going to pursue offenders is a separate
> matter. It's possible that no one cares enough to bother.
>
> Tom
>
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