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From: stew@endor.harvard.edu (Stew Rubenstein)
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Subject: Re: Shareware? Hah!
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Date: 19 Feb 88 02:02:32 GMT
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In article <3343@killer.UUCP> davidg@killer.UUCP (David Guntner) writes:
>One note:  Do NOT under any circumstance upload it to Compu$pend - I have heard
>that they have this weird idea that they hold the copywrite on ALL material
>that comes from their system, including things which users have uploaded!  I
>have heard that they have hassled some BBS's which were carring programs that
>a user would download from CI$ & then upload to the BBS in question.  If you
>want to avoid the hassle, avoid using Compu$pend.
>                            --Dave

You have heard wrong.  CompuServe holds a copyright on the collection,
not on individual programs.  This means you can't download the whole
library and advertise as an alternative to CompuServe, but there's
they place no restriction on redistributing individual programs.

Get the facts before spreading this kind of message.


Stew Rubenstein
Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc.
UUCPnet:    seismo!harvard!rubenstein            CompuServe: 76525,421
Internet:   rubenstein@harvard.harvard.edu       MCIMail:    CSC