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

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 02.04.2011, 20:11

> Hi Laaca.
> > Publish modified binaries + modified sources.
>
> Is it OK with respect to program sources carrying, and executables printing
> copyright statements such as (example) :
>
> copyright db "(c) 1990, 1991 Ziff Communications Co.",10,13
> author db "PC Magazine ",254," Douglas Boling"

I don't know the status of Ziff Davis, and I'm no lawyer. I know they forbid redistribution since a long time (re: Garbo). I'm sure Arjay knows more about this. Anyways, I think they actually used to sell (a year or two ago) it online still as a subscription or bundle. Yeah, maybe I'm remembering wrong, can't remember the URL, who knows.

In any case, you're probably only safe NOT publishing binaries but instead binary patches (debug scripts) and/or non-context diffs, IMHO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziff_Davis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Magazine

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