Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:48:27 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bulley <web@merit.edu> To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Cc: mwlucas@exceptionet.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: merit radius detail files? Message-ID: <199809161348.JAA06675@ohm.merit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980916065246.A16988@klemm.gtn.com> from "Andreas Klemm" at Sep 16, 98 06:52:46 am
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According to Andreas Klemm: > > Well, you only want to know, who is using your software and if people > make modifications, you don't want modifications of your server flying > around (as it happened with my apsfilter, which has about 3 > reincarnations - SuSE team, Debian team, LPRng team) ;-) Certainly, but the MOST important point is redistribution. We surely do not want people to be making money by re-distributing (selling) our work... Again, I am not a lawyer and I don't know all the various fine points about this, so please don't take my word for it, read our basic copyright if you have doubts/questions. > We have a LEGAL file where we can add these restrictions ... We could > even prohibit this software appearing on CD-Rom, but that's not content > of your copyright. Huh? What means "that's not content of your copyright"? I am told that re-distribution is THE point. It may be that your ports folks feel that your CD-ROM is a method of re-distribution (I ceratinly would). Regards, web... -- William Bulley Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network, Inc. Email: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road, Suite C Phone: (734) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (734) 647-3185 [ Reuters, London, February 29, 1998: Scientists have announced discovering ] [ a meteorite which will strike the earth in March, 2028. Millions of UNIX ] [ coders expressed relief for being spared the UNIX epoch "crisis" of 2038. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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