17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Rick Campbell wrote:
I would vastly prefer that people simply place their code in the public domain explicitly.
I think it all depends upon the free will of the authors of the codes to determine under exactly what conditions other people may share their intellectual properties without paying money. The one may impose some non-monetary conditions in the hope of achieving some non-monetary effects in exchange of the work that has been done, while the other impose no conditions at all. There can be no norm in that. After all, it is their codes and the potential users of the codes may also have different views on that without unanimity. M. K. Shen