🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <310@mks.UUCP> wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
>In article <769@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, lean@sbcs (Lean L. Loh) writes:
>> 
>> How come I'm the only one posting things that I got from GEnie?
>> How about you guys on CompuServe, Delphi???  :>
>
>Sorry -- no can do. The fine print in the CompuServe contract says that
>"Customer will not reproduce, sell, publish, or in any manner commercially
>exploit any information obtained through the Service...".     ^^^^^^^^^^^^

The word "commercially" is where the emphasis should lie in this passage.
Especially after the brouhaha over whether CompuServe had any "right" to
make such restrictions on programs released to the public domain.  Basically,
CompuServe had to write a letter clarifying the above passage.

The end result - if you find a new program on CompuServe which doesn't
*specifically* state it was written for CompuServe users only (and there
are some...), then you can upload it to any non-commercial bulletin board
system you wish.  (Probably even to commercial bulletin boards, but that's
not relevant here.)  USENET is as non-commercial as you can get.  Ergo -
you should be able to send that neat PD program you saw to Jim Turner
at {}!imagen!atari!daisy!turner for further distribution on the net.

Note, however, that messages on CompuServe *are* probably fully copyrighted,
and would require permission to retransmit outside of CompuServe.

-- Dave ("not a lawyer, but I read a lot") Meile

"Never underestimate the buying power of a seven year old child."