Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Live News & Professional Electronic Publications in USENET Format Message-ID: <14399@bfmny0.UUCP> Date: 14 Jun 89 01:49:56 GMT References: <3492@looking.on.ca> <4494@ficc.uu.net> <307@lawnet.LawNet.Com> <17588@paris.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: ^ Lines: 27 In article <17588@paris.ics.uci.edu> nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) writes: > * This software is Copyright (c) 1986 by Rick Adams. > * > * Permission is hereby granted to copy, reproduce, redistribute or > * otherwise use this software as long as: there is no monetary > * profit gained specifically from the use or reproduction or this > * software... ... > ...Now, if he wrote _all_ of his own software (i.e., a >complete news system functionally equivalent to the current system), >then there'd be absolutely no reason to complain. Even if Brad didn't use B news software to post the ClariNet material, B news would probably still be used by intermediate forwarding sites as well as the subscriber's receiving site. Since the provision of the ClariNet service (and hence the profits derived) depends on forwarding AND receiving as well as his initial posting, then you could say the terms of the B news copyright were being violated. However, since the holder of the copyright, Rick Adams, is implicitly supporting the ClariNet venture by accepting it as a UUNET feed, one assumes the objection is moot. -- You may not redistribute this article for profit. -- Tom Neff UUCP: ...!uunet!bfmny0!tneff "Truisms aren't everything." Internet: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET