Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!ucla-cs!cs.ucla.edu!mujica From: mujica@ra.cs.ucla.edu (S. Mujica) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Webster Copyright Status Message-ID: Date: 20 Jul 89 00:48:16 GMT References: <1502@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: Computer Science Department, UCLA Lines: 18 In-reply-to: austin@uw-june.uw-beaver's message of 19 Jul 89 23:03:06 GMT on 19 Jul 89 23:03:06 GMT, austin@uw-june.uw-beaver (Austin Dahl) said: > The information in the Webster must be processed and displayed > ONLY on NeXT machines. Using it as a basis for a webster server is NOT > ok, unless ALL the clients are NeXT machines. > If you must flame somebody over this, don't flame NeXT, flame Merriam Webster. > They are the ones insisting on their copyright rights (personally, I > don't blame them, but that's just my opinion). Maybe a GNU Dictionary would be a useful project? Sergio Mujica mujica@cs.ucla.edu Computer Science Department, UCLA