Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!think!ames!hc!beta!cmcl2!phri!orville!dvm!hymie From: hymie@dvm.UUCP (Hyman Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,misc.legal,comp.emacs Subject: Re: Free software and Usenet articles on CompuServe Message-ID: <321@dvm.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 03:36:16 EDT Article-I.D.: dvm.321 Posted: Sun Jul 19 03:36:16 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 19:42:56 EDT References: <1369@cullvax.UUCP> <1147@csib.UUCP> <109@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Reply-To: hymie@dvm.UUCP (Hyman Rosen) Organization: Philon, Inc. (NY, NY) Lines: 31 Xref: mnetor comp.os.minix:1253 misc.legal:2184 comp.emacs:1461 In article <109@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> grieggs@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (John T. Grieggs) writes: >In article <1147@csib.UUCP> jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell) writes: >>>johnl@well.UUCP (John A. Limpert) writes: >>>> Compuserve >>>> has this strange notion that anything uploaded to their system cannot >>>> be downloaded and redistributed. >>Can >>anyone offer a quote from Compuserve that suggests that there are restrictions >>or is this all just hearsay? I quote from 'Service Agreement Terms' in the CompuServe Starter Kit: 6. Customer will not reproduce, sell, publish, or in any manner commercially exploit any information obtained through the Service or participate in or allow such reproduction, sale, publications or exploitation by any person. 7. The provisions of paragraphs 5 and 6 are for the benefit of CompuServe and its data suppliers; any such data supplier shall have the right to assert and/or to enforce such provisions directly on its own behalf. Obviously, this is intended to protect those suppliers that do NOT want their data redistributed freely. I don't know whether CompuServe objects to redistributing data when the supplier does want it spread about. -- - Hymie ...{decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax}!allegra!phri!orville!dvm!hymie