Re: IF archive on CD-ROM


24 Oct 1995 17:11:48 GMT

David Kinder <kinder@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> You could argue (pretty convincingly) that uploading to an archive
> constitues agreeing to distribution of the material. Just because there
> is not written evidence does not mean an agreement does not exist.
>
> Anyway, I'd let Walnut Creek make the CD.

I agree with you: where no licence exists it can be argued that there is
an implied licence giving permission to distribute (or else the author
would not have uploaded it).

However, for some of the material at the IF archive, there *is* a
licence that explicitly denies anyone permission to distribute it for a
profit: see my article <GDR11.95Oct24154636@stint.cl.cam.ac.uk> for some
examples (there are many more).

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Gareth Rees