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Sal Barbagallo writes:
> Tim Smith [ that's me!] writes:
>> that they get off of CIS.  For stuff that is copyrighted, CIS policy is
>> that you must get the permission of the copyright holder.
>
[ he is talking about programs that say they may be freely distributed ]
> If the author says that copies may be freely distributed, then copyright
> or not there seems to be nothing wrong with taking it off CIS and then
> redistributing it on USENET or other BBS as long as it is not for profit
> or personal gain.

Exactly.  If a program says that it may be freely distributed, then CIS
considers that as being "permission of the copyright holder".

This is for non-commercial redistribution.  They restrict commercial
redistribution by the service agreement every CIS subscriber must sign.
This has nothing to do with copyright.

For more information, see the article I am about to post that contains
a statement by Neil Shapiro of MAUG(tm) on the Inforworld/Sande incident,
and a statement of CIS' policies.
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