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That is what "public domain" means. You are placing the code in the public domain, 
allowing anyone to use it, and preventing anyone from asserting exclusive ownership.

What the current header does is assert exclusive ownership. That is not what I signed on 
for.

Also, there is a claim of intellectual property rights for hardware. The hardware was 
designed by Basic Micro Inc. and is the intellectual property of Basic Micro Inc. The 
software is written in MBASIC from Basic Micro Inc. which is the intellectual property of 
Basic Micro Inc.

Just because you hang a few op-amps and an off-the-shelf quad DAC on the pins of a 
Basic Micro processor, does not give you any intellectual property rights to their hardware. 
It is not in the best interest of Basic Micro Inc. to have people blocking sales of the Basic 
Atom Pro processors by false claims of intellectual property rights to their hardware.

If false intellectual property claims are attempting to block sales of products from Basic 
Micro Inc., causing the company a loss in income, the person making those claims may be 
liable for the loss of income and punitive damages.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer, this is just common sense.

--- In SynthModules@yahoogroups.com, "Bryan E Cornell" <bcor@...> wrote:
>
> I probably haven't thought this through as much as others, but wouldn't some sort of 
license that stops somebody from trying to assert exclusive owndership of the code be a 
good thing?  Maybe that's not what the GNU license does.  Dammit Jim, I'm a librarian, not 
a lawyer.
> 
> Bryan
> 
> >>> grichter@... 02/27/06 4:40 PM >>>
> 
> The idea that if you are too lazy or stupid or crazy to do something useful, you get the 
> right to keep anybody else from doing it, is fundamentally un-American.
> 
> --- In SynthModules@yahoogroups.com, "Bryan E Cornell" <bcor@> wrote:
> >
> > Isn't this liscense just ensuring that nobody turns this into a private, commercial 
work?
> > 
> > Bryan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >>> grichter@ 02/27/06 2:11 PM >>>
> > > Grab the existing programs from here:
> > >     http://www.synthmodules.com/programs/PSIM-1_Programs/ 
> > 
> > This is utter and complete bullshit.
> > 
> > Mike Murphy and I were guaranteed that all software contributed would be Public 
> Domain.
> > 
> > All software I and Mike contributed IS still Public Domain, remove the GPL header. It is 
> > incorrect.
> > 
> > It is not the intent of the courts to use intellectual property laws to obstruct the 
> progress of 
> > American technology. The only claim a manufacturer can make against a copy is loss 
of 
> > income, which if you are not selling or shipping a design, CAN NOT be claimed!
> > 
> > If the design is not shipped commercially for two years, it becomes "fallow" and is no 
> longer 
> > defensible under intellectual property laws. The term is "failure to commercialize". 
This 
> will 
> > invalidate a PATENT, although the time needed is longer.
> > 
> > If you design something, you must put it in production, and KEEP it in production or 
you 
> lose 
> > all rights to the design.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
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> > http://www.SynthModules.com 
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> > 
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