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

posted by Ninho , 02.04.2011, 23:55

>>
>>
>> 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:

Yeah, I heard that too. OTOH many many repositories carry their utilities,
apparently without fear of reprisals, and I mean serious looking places,
not the typical "war3z" house :=)


> 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.

It used to be by subscription I think. I don' know, either, if Ziff or some
successor entity still actively tries to sell those old proggies.
Considering the state of DOS in 2011, it could be a costly operation for
little benefit ;=)


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

I'm grateful for your advice. To be sure I don't misunderstand, what do
you call "non-context" diffs, please ?

---
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