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From: nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
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Subject: Re: Clarinet and Royalties
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Date: 14 Jun 89 03:26:05 GMT
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In-reply-to: karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)

In article <KARL.89Jun13213653@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu>, karl@dinosaur (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
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|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.)

This still fails to address the other part of the question: is
ClariNet in violation of Rick Adams B News copyright if it uses B News
as the transport layer?  If so, will he instead be providing his own
version of the news software or will he be getting (or buying) special
permission from Rick Adams to use B News?

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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