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From: schaefer@bgsuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: Restrictions on Stargate
Message-ID: <743@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 17:59:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 17:59:49 1987
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Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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Summary: Could a lawyer please comment?

Could a lawyer reading this group please comment on redistribution
restrictions?  I understand, of course, that such an opinion might be
worth exactly what I paid for it.

Even more valuable would be the opinion of the lawyer to the Stargate
folks.  As a subscriber to Stargate, that would be an opinion for
which my University would have paid, in some sense.

I'm personally a little disappointed that our subscription money might
have to be spent on a lawyer instead of on providing service, but
that's life in the free world.  Clearly, I defer to the judgement of
the Stargate Team as to whether retaining a lawyer is necessary.  I am
asking only out of personal curiosity.

I will tentatively state the position of BGSU on this issue: We will
subscribe to Stargate.  We will continue to participate in USENET.  We
will follow the legal restrictions on redistribution - which I trust
will be clearly LEGAL restrictions.

For the purposes of USENET, BGSU is effectively a leaf node.  I do not
foresee that any article will fail to be distributed as usual because
of our participation in Stargate.

(-: Just think - if Stargate carried paid advertising, they'd be
BEGGING us to redistribute! :-)
(-: Anyone who can't read a smiley face will be flamed. :-)
-- 
	Stephen P. Schaefer
	Systems Programmer
	schaefer@research1.bgsu.edu
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