Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Clarinet and Royalties Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 89 01:36:53 GMT References: <18430@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: na Organization: OSU Lines: 17 msw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu writes: What I would like to know what percentage royalties Clarinet Corp. will be paying to the authors of the news transport and news reading software. [RN copyright...] You may copy this program so long as you don't try to make money off of it... Brad is not distributing rn itself; rather, he is only distributing some sort of library which may be linked against it, or which may be run standalone without rn. (Check for yourself; I just re-read the comp.newprod articles very very carefully to be sure.) QED: Brad is not making money off of rn itself; the users who read clari.* may be using it, but they are *spending* money, and they are free to use any news-reading interface they wish. --Karl