From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Aug 14 14:37:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA27472 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 14:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from enetis.net (enet1.enetis.net [206.31.204.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA27463 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 14:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from enet1 (enet1.enetis.net [206.31.204.1]) by enetis.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA21903; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 15:36:29 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 15:36:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Justin England X-Sender: jengland@enet1 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISP's are being sued In-Reply-To: <9608142126.AA08044@antares.linf.unb.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Michael Dillon writes: > > > > >Netscape has sent requests for payment to a number of ISP's > > >and told them they had to pay for all copies they ever distributed. > > Interesting. Some ISPs here have contracts stating it is the responsibility > of the client to register any of the softwares (given to them by the ISP) > they use. > If I remember right, the Netscapes license DOES NOT allow for redistrubition. You can only obtain Netscape from a retail store, their web site, or through some of their .EDU mirror sites. Therefore, you cannot give out copies of netscape to your users without a contract with Netscape. Justin England