Hi, [ Please keep the bug report CC'ed ]
Jim Studt wrote: > The oldest release of nntp I could find was 1.5.11 from 1991. There is > no hint of a package-wide license or copyright in there. The bulk of > this code was probably written and released before March 1, 1989 and > would have entered the public domain by being released without an > explicit copyright notice, but that leaves the part written after the > law changed in 1989, 1.5.4 and after, in limbo. Isn't that specific to US copyright law? It will not become public domain in other countries just because of a missing copyright notice. And even there we still have problems with the changes after 1989, so the situation seems pretty clear to me: We are not allowed to distribute the code at all. Regards, Ansgar -- PGP: 1024D/595FAD19 739E 2D09 0969 BEA9 9797 B055 DDB0 2FF7 595F AD19 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
