RE: SXMACLIB
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Agreed ! They (IBM) don't have a whole lot of legal protections, but that doesn't, by default, make it public domain. Where the heck is a copyright attorney when you need one ??? Shelby _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H390-MVS] SXMACLIB "Since they published the code without copyright notices" Youre sadly mistaken. Joe On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 10:05 PM kerravon86-/[email protected] [H390-MVS] <[email protected]> wrote: ---In [email protected], <joemonk64@...> wrote : >> No, they gave up ownership of it. > Since when? Since they published the code without copyright notices. > Last I checked the MVS access methods in z/os > are copyrighted works. I'm talking about MVS 3.8J, not z/OS. > Last time I checked, all of the instructions from > the S/370 days are copyrighted. You can't copyright an instruction. You could theoretically patent it though, but that only lasts 20 years, so the instructions have long become public domain. > They didnt give up ownership at all. Yes they did. They released it as public domain code. Not a copyrighted product. >> No, it's the public's code. > No its not. They gave the public a free license > to use it. Even if it is copyright freeware, that's fine. But it isn't. It's public domain. > Just like you dont own Windows, Windows has always been copyrighted, and source code hasn't been released either. The source code almost certainly has copyright notices on it. MVS 3.8J is not like Windows at all. > the public doesnt own MVS. Yes we do. BFN. Paul.