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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
  • To: permaculture
  • Subject: Re: Permaculture copyright
  • Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 01:02:49 -0400


On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:23:44 +1000, Pacific Edge Permaculture
<pacedge@magna.com.au> wrote:


>The copyright claim, whether well intentioned for the purposes of
>maintaining quality standards or for more self serving reasons, the effect
>is the same. . . a decline in PC. If pushed further it will see a number
>of legal counter claims from those who have helped shaped it and it herald
>the widespread abandonment of the use of name in the activities of many
>more.

I think it is very shortsighted to make this statement. To throw
Bill's copyright to the winds would be, essentially, to abandon the
very standards and principles that have made this movement grow
steadily in acceptance and use since it began. To open this Pandora's
Box would be a huge mistake. "You never miss it until it's gone", you
know.


Lawrence F. London, Jr. Venaura Farm ICQ#27930345
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  • Re: Permaculture copyright, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 06/06/2000

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