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From: dkcombs@netcom.com (David Combs)
Subject: LEGAL-KERMIT: may an ISP put up KERMIT (free) for customer use?
Date: 5 Oct 1999 02:32:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <7tbnvv$46k@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Because the fellow who kept a recent and correctly-compiled
version of kermit has evidently abandoned using netcom,
there remains only a half-working version -- one that
downloads ok, but gets errors on uploading.
Mindspring (bought netcom) is saying that one of us
USERS has to put up a kermit, it we want one.
Well, they allow us only 5mb of disk; over that, they
CHARGE.
One person from mindspring was saying that their hands
were tied because your free-use license disallowed
any "commercial" use -- including, they inferred, as an
ISP, for their customers.
QUESTION: just what IS the situation?
And, if there is a charge for "commercial" use (like by mindspring),
HOW MUCH of a charge is it?
Thanks!
David Combs
PS: that KERMIT is a WONDERFUL package indeed!
esp with all the error-catching it does, and the ability
to resume a download after a crashed session, and still
lose nothing.