Re: Free CD's to authors

[Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>]

andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell) said:

> > Which would seem to contradict their copyright statements.
> 
> No, not everyone uses the GPL.
> 
> 
> This program is copyrighted (c) 1995 by Holger Schemel.
> 
> It is freely distributable as long as no profit is made with it
> and as long as the package is left complete and unmodified.
> [...]
> Holger wrote one of the games i've packaged, mirror magic and a boulderdash
> clone, rocks 'n diamonds which I'll probably package soon.

As I understand our distribution policies, programs with such 
restrictive copyrights should placed in non-free, not in the main
distribution.  They'd probably not be picked up on CDROM distributions.