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From: karam@sce.carleton.ca (Gerald Karam)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Cancellation of article
Summary: thanks for the quick reaction
Keywords: IEEE, ACM copyright basically the same
Message-ID: <559@sce.carleton.ca>
Date: 2 Mar 89 12:58:14 GMT
References: <91654@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: karam@sce.UUCP (Gerald Karam)
Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <91654@sun.uucp> dhare@sun.UUCP (Dwight Hare) writes:
>I am trying to cancel my posting of Bjarne Stroustrup's article.  I apologize
>for any consternation caused.  As an excuse, I can only explain that I
>thought that IEEE was the same as ACM in allowing articles to be copied.

dwight, thanks for the fast action in response to what i believe was 
an unintentional and certainly not malicious mistake.  i'm glad ieee
has decided not to pursue legal action.

but, ACM and IEEE have basically the same copying policies; you can copy
small numbers of the original article *with* the magazine identification
portions intact for research purposes, but you cannot distribute on a
large scale, and certainly not without copyrights indicated.

you are correct that the guy who requested it shouldn't have, and those
of us watching the net should have said something about it, but frankly,
i didn't think anybody who had the technology would go to all that trouble.

you are commended in your effort to help your fellow man, but next time
just pop a copy in the mail.

gerald
karam@sce.uucp
karam@sce.carleton.ca