Xref: utzoo news.admin:4786 news.groups:7367 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!shamash!nis!viper!dave From: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: The "RN" licence and rec.humor.funny Keywords: administivia Message-ID: <1886@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> Date: 12 Feb 89 05:16:07 GMT References: <2706@looking.UUCP> <2844@epimass.EPI.COM> <2714@looking.UUCP> <6276@rayssd.ray.com> <2728@looking.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) Distribution: na Organization: Lynx Data Systems, Eagan, MN Lines: 36 In article <2728@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: >From my README file for "rn." > > Rn Kit, Version 4.3 > > Copyright (c) 1985, Larry Wall > >You may copy the rn kit in whole or in part as long as you don't try to >make money off it, or pretend that you wrote it. >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Other than the part I added about wanting to have the power to remove the >group from sites where people are trying to libel me and ruin my life, this >is essentially the same thing I am saying. (The other difference, a >compilation copyright vs. a software copyright.) And that is what I, for one, am objecting to. (Plus the little bit about only allowing a site to retain r.h.f for two months -- a restriction that I can't be sure of not violating.) However, you didn't restrict it to people who were trying to libel you -- if you are going to let the legal Genie out of the lamp, you'd better be precise. Here is my suggestion for a compilation copyright for r.h.f: You may copy rec.humor.funny, in whole or in part as long as you don't try to make money off it, or pretend that you compiled it. I wouldn't object to that. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ __ _ _ _ David Messer - Lynx Data Systems / ) / ' ) ) ) dave@Lynx.MN.Org -or- / / __. , __o __/ / / / _ _ _ _ __ ...{amdahl,hpda}!bungia! /__/_(_/|_\\/ <__(_/_ / ' (_