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From: blacher@irs3.UUCP (Robert Blacher)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: requests to post zoo
Summary: That's a heck of a copyright, Rahul
Keywords: ZOO COPYRIGHT
Message-ID: <521@irs3.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 88 20:12:01 GMT
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Reply-To: blacher@irs3.UUCP (Robert Blacher)
Organization: Computer Connections PCBoard, Wash.,D.C.
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Rahul -- Thanks for posting ZOO v2.00 DOS version executables to
the net.

Your README.1ST file contains a rather strange copyright, to put
it mildly.   While I can appreciate your desire not to have others
profiteer on what you're making available for free, did you realize
your copyright statement (really a license) would prohibit the
Capitol PC Users' Group, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization,
from putting ZOO on one of their disks?  The file was also
refused by Compuserve when uploaded there, which they had to
do in light of your "no more than $8 an hour" statement.

I recognize there will be a longer statement of your license
when the source for ZOO 2.01 is released.  I hope you'll give
some careful thought to it.  ZOO can't be considered at all
as an ARC alternative by BBS systems with the restrictions
you now have on it. 

Thanks.  You know where to find me and I'll be glad to discuss
this further with you and offer any help I can on this.

...bob