[Coco] Announcement re Ved, VPrint

[Kandur]

Are you suggesting that Bob could/should withdraw
his softwares now in PD from PD and release them as FW?

Kandur

Friday, November 14, 2014, 9:19:16 AM, you wrote:
> How about getting back with Bob and clarify it to be FREEWARE". I believe
> that would be the intended form of distribution and he can still hold commercial rights.


> On Nov 13, 2014, at 3:13 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> Greetings all;

> I got this reply from Bob just now.  He has blessed us with this quote:

> "I have no way to make any retail copies of the programs and don't even 
> know if I still have readable source code. And, it's been a very long time 
> since I made a nickle from any of this ... so ... here's the announcement 
> you can pass along to the CoCo group:

> *  Effective immediately (Nov 13, 2014) all of my OS9 and Color Computer
> programs are released into the public domain. Feel free to trade and copy.
> Just don't make any money from my labors!*"

> So I'd say you can pass it along and put it in our archives as long as 
> everything but the bandwidth is free.  You pay for that when you pay your 
> monthly ISP bill.

> One way to show your appreciation might be to purchase one of his music 
> cd's at his mellowood.ca site.  He can make some very nice music with a 
> licorice stick (clarinet).  I have a copy of his "Cedars" cd, and its nice 
> easy listening.

> <http://mellowood.ca/music/cedars/index.html>  Or you can start at the 
> home page, his lady, Val, is an artist and does some nice things too.

> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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