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- From: st@freeside.shn.com (Soenke Tesch)
- Subject: Re: Mirroring Aminet
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- Date: 9 Jan 96 21:27:36 CET
- Organization: freeside -- why wait?
-
- Zsolt Szabo (robodude@deanwong.rad.jhu.edu) wrote in comp.sys.amiga.misc:
-
- : Does anyone know if there are any legal implications to mirroring parts
- : of Aminet on a BBS? I wouldn't think so, since it's all supposed to be
- : shareware/freeware/public domain/etc.--but I find that often this
- : kind of reasoning does not seem to prevail in real life. BTW this would
- : be for a local BBS with no net access.
- :
- : Anyway, I e-mailed the user at aminet.org responsible for this kind of
- : correspondence but never got a reply. I would appreciate a response via
- : e-mail, by the way.
-
-
- From the aminet.readme file on ftp.wustl.edu:pub/aminet/somewhere..:
-
- ------->8---------------------------->8-------------------->8-------------------
-
- CONTENTS
- ========
-
- 1. Getting started
- 2. Finding out what's new
- 3. Finding a specific file
- 4. Directory structure
- 5. Mirror sites of Aminet
- 6. Accessing Aminet on the Internet
- 7. Accessing Aminet without Internet
- 8. Copyright status and disclaimer
- 9. Background information
-
-
- [..]
-
- 8. Copyright status and disclaimer
- ----------------------------------
-
- While the files from Aminet are freely distributable, the collection is
- copyrighted by the moderators. Making a CD-ROM with more than 200M of
- files from our collection or mirroring it on a regular basis requires
- permission from the administrators. That permission will be granted to
- mirrors if they provide an upload facility. If you as an uploader do
- not like this policy, don't upload or have your uploads removed.
-
- The administrators of Aminet give no warranties concerning the files
- stored. Use at your own risk. Specifically, we cannot guarantee that the
- programs are virus-free, uncorrupted, freely distributable or even useful
- in any way, although we do our best to ensure the above.
-
- [..]
-
- Moderators
-
- Urban D. Mueller umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu
- Matthias Scheler mscheler@wuarchive.wustl.edu
-
- Default contact address:
-
- aminet@wuarchive.wustl.edu
-
- We hope you enjoy the service.
-
- -------8<-------------------------------8<---------------------8<---------------
-
- That`s it.
-
- bye,
- soenk.e
-