"Tim Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I missed that also. I would suspect, if you talked to them, that
> their main concern is someone taking their work and then selling
> it. I can't imagine them complaining about including it in an open
> source product like Unattended.
Well, we would not be bundling their work. We would be providing a
link to their free download together with a script to install it.
Since we would not be reproducng their work, I suspect we would be OK
legally. (Although we might need to make sure the end-user is aware
of the license before we perform the download.)
Their license is pretty clear:
These free blocklists are strictly for non-commercial, personal
use only! If you are considering using it for any other use,
contact us first.
Sure, it's just a bunch of registry settings. But a book is just a
bunch of words, and real-time stock quotes are just a bunch of
numbers... I cannot think of any reason why this work would not be
covered by copyright.
Now, fhe file itself includes neither a copyright notice nor a
license, which might make it harder for them to enforce. Or not; I am
no lawyer. But ethically, even if not legally, we should respect the
authors' intentions. It would be wrong to use that .reg file in
anything other than a non-commercial, personal environment.
Overall, I am inclined to make this a FAQ entry with a link to their
site, rather than bundle a script.
- Pat
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