On 4 Nov, 09:21, Dave wrote:
art wrote:
A friend of mine wants to try out the AO program by Beazely.
The program is not in the commercial market now as it is not being
sold
He wants to make a copy of my disc to try something out that requires
AO
I suppose since it is not for sale which probably means copyrights are
now defunct
I don't see any reason to not acceed to his request.
Ofcourse so few people pay for computor programs these days but I like
to do things right,

Why not ask? If the author is not selling it, then he might well be
quite happy for you to distribute a copy.

after all if a patent is abandoned then it is a free for all since
the advance of science cannot be stopped and it becomes freeware

I don't think the copyright expires on a bit of software like this. I
belive there is a limit on books, but that is about 30 years or so -
quite a long while anyway. Should software be the same, then I doubt the
copyright has expired on any of it.



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Yup,
you are probabl;y correct! I will get around it by lending it
while retaining ownership which apparently what is normaslly done
these days.
Shame that it is being squirreled away so nobody can use it
especially since it is still considered the best there is.
As for asking he does not answer Emails as he now works
in other areas. People have been asking for it so that they
can see and model Gaussian antennas for themselves and I don't know
of another program that would accept it
Art