At 12:44 AM 7/25/99 -0600, Aaron Blosser wrote:
>Neither GIMPS nor Primenet have *any* legal claim for any prize for
>any discovery made using Prime95/NTPrime/mprime, or any code modified
>and compiled that was based on George's code. Let's face it, there is
>nothing stipulated in the use of any of those programs, or the
>use of Primenet as a coordinator, that implies in any way shape or
>form that they would legally be entitled to any prize money at all.
Yeah, but.....
At 05:32 PM 7/17/99 -0400, George Woltman wrote:
>I'm soliciting everyone's opinion before making a decision.
>[....]
>a policy needs to be in place before version 19 is released.
Until then, none of us will be looking in the decamega range.
George is considering the creation of a non-profit corporation for
the purpose of dividing the prize money, so the legal issues
would be addressed. George asked for opinions on how to *distribute*
the money.
There's a few more worms in this can. I'm thinking specifically
of Ernst, but it could be somebody else. Suppose the lucky
program uses PrimeNet (and George's database), but it was not
George's program? What a quagmire!
One interesting point of Aaron's:
>or any code modified and compiled that was based on George's code.
George's Merced code should render that code obsolete.
--Luke
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