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From: seindal@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Rene' Seindal)
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Subject: Re: EUnet, unido and USENET
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Date: 27 Jul 89 17:48:40 GMT
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jeffrey@algor2.uu.net (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:

> If some copylefted material reaches EUnet and they distribute it,
> charging for the costs as they calculate them, good so far.  But am I
> to understand they are banning the recipient from further distributing
> them?

If you receive copylefted or public domain software via EUnet, you can
redistribute it if you want to.  EUnet cannot interfere, and wouldn't want to.

What you are not allowed to, is to provide *non-EUUG* members with a newsfeed,
you have yourself got via EUnet.  This is due to the varying laws in the
different european countries, regarding the national PTTs monopolies on
telecommunications, as I have mentioned earlier.  Whether or not you can
provide other EUUG members with a newsfeed is a matter of structure of the
network, which is an purely internal EUUG (and EUnet) matter.

There is a problem in this, since it is hard to tell where the borderline is
between redistributing some software and a few individual messages, and
providing a (partial) newsfeed.

Rene' Seindal (seindal@diku.dk).