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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: zoo copyright update
Message-ID: <661@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 89 20:31:27 GMT
References: <6497@bsu-cs.UUCP> <216100088@trsvax>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <216100088@trsvax> johnm@trsvax.UUCP writes:
=
=>3.   DISTRIBUTION IN UNMODIFIED FORM:  You may copy this software in
=>     unmodified form for any purpose, whether commercial or
=>     noncommercial, provided that you make no attempt to restrict
=>     distribution of it by others.
=
=This is still technically a problem with Compu$erve's claimed compilation
=copywrite.  Can you clarify this point so that we can push the format there
=too...
=
=A Zoo fan,
=John Munsch

I don't think it is.  CIS's compilation copyright prevents people from
downloading an entire library and uploading it somewhere else.  One piece of
software -- even if it consists as multiple files -- could not be restricted
by them.

Pete
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