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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...

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William Bulley                     Senior Systems Research Programmer
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