Re: New Header

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Pat Berry (pat@berry.Cary.NC.US)
Sat, 23 Apr 94 11:58:58 EDT


Piero Serini <piero@strider.st.dsi.unimi.it> writes:

> OK OK. A small example:
> 'A' wants to set up a USENET site for fun. No money requested for
> connecting. Free phone lines, he's rich, and wants to pay for an
> incoming T1 and give access for free. 'A' sets up the machine, the
> software, and while configuring it sets this in config.file:
> x-copyright-refuse="none"
> Then, the *news software* will simply not scan the X-Copyright.
>
> 'B' wants to set up a USENET site for money. Exagerate amounts
> of money. He will charge 100$ each time a user reads a FAQ. He
> will set this in config.file:
> x-copyright-refuse="all"
> Then, the *news software* will put in junk all articles with
> a X-Copyright header, unless it says "Free".
>
> Between 'all' and 'none', there should be some other keyword :)
> For example, I don't want Gnu-like licenses.
> x-copyright-refuse="GPL"
> I don't want Berkeley-like ones:
> x-copyright-refuse="UCB"
>
> This is meant as an easy *filter*.

You really are confusing two completely different things!
"Copyright" and "license" are not synonyms.

And the number of possible agreements is infinite. It is not possible
to write a filter that will recognize them all.



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