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From: greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg F. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Commercial software in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Summary: If poster != author of must pay shareware then don't post
Message-ID: <108@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Date: 18 Mar 89 19:45:36 GMT
References: <6191@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2967@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg F. Thompson)
Organization: U of Akron Computer Center, Ohio
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	Why not make it so that the only restriction would be if the poster
of the program is not the author of the program which requires payment then
don't post it.
	Otherwise the policy should be if it is posted on Usenet it should be
free to use without restrictions on the use (in the sense of payments).
Otherwise c.b.i.p will be giving free advertising for a company that
requires payment, thus I feel this falls CLOSELY to commercial software
which isn't allowed to be posted here unless there are provisions made by
the author (ex. somebody wrote foreign language tutoring programs and the
company went under so the author gave them out to PD or shareware, I forget
which).
	If it is a person on usenet then he will have to add to the comments
that if the program was received directly from usenet that the user does not
have the restriction of pay to use because of the policy of comercial free
software on usenet.
	I don't really care what gets posted but if commercial programs aren't
allowed then why should these pay to use programs be allowed?

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