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In article <MIKE.90Aug4174518@drums.chorus.fr>, mike@chorus.fr (Mike
Bayliss) writes:
|> +-- In article <PCG.90Aug3150143@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk>
pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
|> >  Note that technically the entire UKNET is also in violation of
the
|> >  copyright of all those news authors that allow copying of their
articles
|> >  only if no restriction is imposed on their further circulation. I
think
|> >  that the UKNET gateway should check and verify that no such
articles,
|> >  especially those bearing a GNU copyright, pass thru it. Probably
use of
|> >  Templeton's shareware filtering package would solve the problem.
|> 
|> This is an old argument that I don't think ever got resolved when it
was
|> last debated. Unfortunately, most of the people who use those
copyrights
|> are from the US where news feeds are free/cheap. Although they might
solve
|> a problem in the US (i.e. somebody making commercial gain from an
article),
|> they do not address the problem of sites like the European backbones
(not
|> just ukc) that must pass on some of the costs of receiving the
article.
|>  
|> 

The GNU license makes allowances for distribution costs, however. 
And just like paying for the price of the tape, 
paying for a newsfeed is a distribution cost -
UKC is not charging phenomenal amounts to try and make profit on every
bit of
software you might pick up and would be safe from the GNU copyleft.



Nick Williams.
Project Athena, M.I.T.
Imperial College, London, UK (The faces are coming....!)

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