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Mike Meyer (mwm@contessa.phone.net)
Tue, 13 Dec 94 21:50:58 PST

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> Whether publishing without permission is another matter. My take on it is
> that unless some particular FAQ's are selected as the "best FAQ's of
> USENET" or somesuch, then it is merely a very slow news feed of
> news.answers. But then, I'm not a lawyer so I see things in terms of what
> I can better enable society to find out, rather than in terms of what I
> can stop society finding out. Since my "day job" pays enough, it's no
> skin off my nose if Walnut Creek makes 0.000001 cents on every copy of a
> FAQ they sell and helps society find out more things in the process.
>
> Maybe I'm just weird?

I don't think you're wierd. I agree completely. Walnut Creek isn't
violating my copyright, because the license says USENet use is legal,
and their normal operations qualifies as such as far as I'm concerned.

However, the license will change to make that more explicit in the
future.

<mike

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