From: cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] 2bsd tarball -> pdtar, with a side of uuslave
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:01:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzwQKoP+=tLfPz4-daziF1=GD0ie-u3+ALg78s91ch+v_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26260.1596030165@hop.toad.com>
(Sent to COFF as too far afield for a subthread)
On 29/07/2020, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote (in part):
[...]
> There was another chapter to the "tar wars" after UNIX and after POSIX.
First, thank you for the chapter. #6-)
> I put the pdtar code into the public domain, so it could be widely used.
> This produced a variety of support headaches. [...] This eventually led me to
> understand more of the value in using the GNU General Public License.
As everyone knows, a lot of Usenet source was released into the public
domain. I have been told, time and again, by IP lawyers never to
release s/w unencumbered. Without an appropriate encumbrance, the
author may be liable for any damage caused by said s/w -- as insane
as that sounds. (I was told that there is even case law but I cannot
remember what.) So your support woes could have been worse.
N.
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