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- Compilation Copyright 26 April 1995
- Oulu, Finland
- Version 1.1
-
- The X2 Support Group archives, which are available at the ftp-site
- x2ftp.oulu.fi, are hereby placed under Compilation Copyright by the X2
- Support Group. All commercial use of X2 Support Group archives, or
- inclusion with a commercial product, is prohibited without a specific
- permission from X2 Support Group. This permission is for one use only,
- unless otherwise agreed, and may not be forwarded, sold or given to
- third parties.
-
- The Compilation Copyright of X2 Support Group archives covers all the
- indexes, log files, informational files and all the other files that
- we have written for the X2 Support Group archives. The copyright also
- covers the archive collection as whole, especially a|l the things that
- have added extra value to the collection of separate files. An example
- of this is the selection of directory names and grouping of files into
- certain directories.
-
- The X2 Support Group Compilation Copyright does not cover individual
- files, except the above mentioned files written by X2 Support Group,
- nor does it cover individual directories, except those especially
- created for the X2 Support Group usage eg. x2info directories. The X2
- Compilation Copyright especially does not prohibit in any way the
- copying or distribution of individual files found in X2 Support Group
- archives, even for commercial use.
-
- There are books that have been put together from several separate
- texts. The authors of the texts have a copyright on what they have
- written, but also the editor of the book has a copyright on the work
- he has done ie. put together the book. He has added value to a group
- of separate items with his individual intellectual work. We consider
- ourselves as editors of X2 Support Group archives and we have a right
- to protect our intellectual work, the value that we have added to this
- collection.
-
- After my discussions with Richard Stallman of the Free Software
- Foundation I have this to say: X2 Support Group archives are not
- placed under GNU General Public License. The X2 Support Group archives
- are placed under the compilation copyright of X2 Support Group.
-
- The following three directories are not part of X2 Support Group
- archives and thus not covered by our Compilation Copyright:
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- x2ftp.oulu.fi:/pub/msdos/programming/djgpp/
- x2ftp.oulu.fi:/pub/msdos/programming/gnu/
- x2ftp.oulu.fi:/pub/unix/packages/gnu/
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- For more info about Free Software Foundation and the GNU General
- Public License please contact gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- Our reason in placing the X2 Support Group archive under Compilation
- Copyright is to protect our rights, not to prevent the distribution of
- the material or even the X2 Support Group archives. We have placed a
- year hard work into the creation of X2 Support Group archives and we
- take both pride and responsibility of the result. We make restrictions
- on the use of the X2 Support Group archive in order to be able to keep
- our good name and maintain the high quality of the archive.
-
- The main guideline of X2 Support Group is to promote development of
- high quality software and to gather and make available information
- related to the various phases of the software development and life. We
- wish to make our archives available for everybody as widely as
- possible, but we also have to make sure the archive is handled
- according to our high standards.
-
- Our policy is that all sites wishing to mirror X2 Support Group
- archives and all parties wishing to make CD-ROM(s) from the X2 Support
- Group archives have the same possibility to do it. We give nor allow
- exclusive agreements. We give nor allow restrictive contracts.
-
- We demand that all parties wishing to redistribute X2 Support Group
- archives contact us first to discuss about the details in advance and
- to receive our blessing for the act. All the X2 Support Group mirror
- archives have to be approved in advance and be accessible free of
- charge. All the commercial use of X2 Support Group archives is denied
- unless a license contract is made with the X2 Support Group. We wish
- not to make money with the archives, but we also wish not to deny
- making it available commercially. We have to approve the release and
- receive a part of the profit made with the X2 Support Group archive.
-
- X2 Support Group archives are copyrighted (c) 1995 by X2 Support
- Group. All Rights Reserved. Redistribution without explicit permission
- prohibited.
-
- Jouni Miettunen jon@x2ftp.oulu.fi
- President of X2 Support Group
-
- You can contact X2 Support Group at the address:
-
- X2 Support Group
- P.O.Box 16
- FIN-90571 Oulu
- Finland
-