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In article <17588@paris.ics.uci.edu> nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) writes:
> * This software is Copyright (c) 1986 by Rick Adams.
> *
> * Permission is hereby granted to copy, reproduce, redistribute or
> * otherwise use this software as long as: there is no monetary
> * profit gained specifically from the use or reproduction or this
> * software...
 ...
>        ...Now, if he wrote _all_ of his own software (i.e., a
>complete news system functionally equivalent to the current system),
>then there'd be absolutely no reason to complain.

Even if Brad didn't use B news software to post the ClariNet material, 
B news would probably still be used by intermediate forwarding sites 
as well as the subscriber's receiving site. Since the provision of the 
ClariNet service (and hence the profits derived) depends on forwarding 
AND receiving as well as his initial posting, then you could say the 
terms of the B news copyright were being violated. 

However, since the holder of the copyright, Rick Adams, is implicitly 
supporting the ClariNet venture by accepting it as a UUNET feed, one 
assumes the objection is moot. 
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