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Date: Sun 20-Jul-1989 02:48:02 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Webster Copyright Steve Dorner <1502@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> writes: >I asked a while back about the copyright status of the Dictionary on the >NeXT.[...] >The information in the Webster must be processed and displayed >ONLY on NeXT machines. Using it as a basis for a webster server is NOT >ok, unless ALL the clients are NeXT machines. I would be most surprised if a simple copyright can make such a stipulation. In the worst case one could run a single-user server, emulating the effect of having just a single copy of the dictionary. I didn't sign a licensing agreement restricting such use of Webster. My inclination is to ignore this advice. ---------------------- Rick Morrison | {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!morrison Dept. of Computer Science| morrison@cs.ubc.ca Univ. of British Columbia| morrison%ubc.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 | morrison@ubc.csnet (ubc-csgrads=128.189.97.20) (604) 228-4327 >From: woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo)
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