Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!killer!pollux!dalsqnt!rpp386!pigs!haugj
From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: requests to post zoo
Summary: misunderstanding the zoo copyright ...
Keywords: ZOO COPYRIGHT
Message-ID: <395@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 88 14:52:28 GMT
References: <3668@bsu-cs.UUCP> <67033@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Organization: The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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In article <67033@sun.uucp> limes@ouroborous (Greg Limes) writes:
> One step further, though; your license prohibits most long distance carriers
> from allowing ZOO to be transmitted long distance. $8.00 per hour comes to a
> bit over $0.13 per minute; I tend to call a lot of "free" bulletin board
> systems that cost more than this in phone charges.

no, you misunderstand the license.  the service which is providing the
archive may not charge more than $8/hr.  if you have to pay a million
bucks an hour to get there, the computer service is still permitted to
distribute zoo.  one might argue that if AT&T or MCI operated a "free"
BBS but required you to use long distance to get to the system [ read:
THEIR long distance service ] that the license would forbid them from
distributing the software.

>I dunno. I think I will stick with ARC, or PK's latest. Good work on the
>program, but your licensing restrictions bite the wax tadpole.

i'll agree.  either the software should be shareware, freeware or
for-pay-ware.  it should not try to be a moral statement.  (not unless
his name is bill joy or dennis ritchie ;-)
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