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may I publish fixes to utilities such as PC Magazine's ? (Developers)

posted by Ninho , 01.04.2011, 20:19
(edited by Ninho on 01.04.2011, 20:46)

I could use advice from the collective wisdom...

Is it admissible to publish modifications, fixes and the like for widely accessible utilities such as, e.g. the old PC Magazine collection which is available with sources often from a load of sites. The question comes from the programs being copyrighted by the publisher (not even the actual authors) despite being open source.

In the event I wished to make privately made fixes available to the community at large, what of the following ways could be (im)proper in your opinions :

- publish fixed binaries along with modified sources (including the original) ?

- publish modified source only (in diff form) ?

- other ?

- are answers different in case of small bug fixes, versus large enhancements, modifications, or derived work ?

I'm assuming the publisher (Ziff Communication Co., if even it still exists) can't practically be contacted over such queries.

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Ninho

Complete thread:

• may I publish fixes to utilities such as PC Magazine's ? - Ninho, 01.04.2011, 20:19 (Developers)
  • may I publish fixes to utilities such as PC Magazine's ? - Laaca, 02.04.2011, 09:29
    • may I publish fixes to utilities such as PC Magazine's ? - Ninho, 02.04.2011, 10:41
      • may I publish fixes to utilities such as PC Magazine's ? - Rugxulo, 02.04.2011, 20:11
        • may I publish fixes to utilities such as PC Magazine's ? - Ninho, 02.04.2011, 23:55
          • may I publish fixes to utilities such as PC Magazine's ? - Rugxulo, 03.04.2011, 01:22
            • diffs to non-free source code, copyright infringement? - ecm, 03.04.2011, 01:30
              • diffs to non-free source code, copyright infringement? - Ninho, 04.04.2011, 13:33
                • diffs to non-free source code, copyright infringement? - Khusraw, 04.04.2011, 14:02
                  • diffs to non-free source code, copyright infringement? - Ninho, 04.04.2011, 17:56
                    • diffs to non-free source code, copyright infringement? - Khusraw, 04.04.2011, 19:28
                      • diffs to non-free source code, copyright infringement? - Ninho, 05.04.2011, 13:42
                        • diffs to non-free source code, copyright infringement? - Khusraw, 06.04.2011, 12:46
            • may I publish fixes to utilities such as PC Magazine's ? - Ninho, 04.04.2011, 13:03
        • may I publish fixes to utilities such as PC Magazine's ? - Arjay, 21.05.2011, 09:14
  • may I publish fixes to utilities such as PC Magazine's ? - Khusraw, 03.04.2011, 09:52
    • may I publish fixes to utilities such as PC Magazine's ? - RayeR, 04.04.2011, 00:46
      • may I publish fixes to utilities such as PC Magazine's ? - Ninho, 04.04.2011, 18:03