Re: US versions of Netscape now available

[David Sternlight <david@sternlight.com>]

At 4:57 AM -0700 7/19/96, Peter D. Junger wrote:
>Jeff Weinstein writes:
>
>: Adam Back wrote:
>: > Presumably as this latest netscape beta is freely distributable, once
>: > it's out it will be on ftp.unimi.dsi.it, ftp.ox.ac.uk, etc, etc.
>:
>:   Just a minor nit.  No netscape software is freely distributable.
>: The license agreement does not allow people who download it
>: to redistribute it.
>
>But--to nitpick at the nit--nothing in the license agreement that I
>can find forbids one from distributing it to others who are not
>foreign persons and are not outside the United States.

It's a copyright work. There is no need to be explicit--redistribution of
copyright intellectual property (except for fair use excerpts) is an
infringement without explicit permission of the copyright owner, isn't it?
Next you'll be telling us that one can Xerox best-sellers without
permission and send them to Patagonia unless there's an explicit sale
prohibition against it.

Tthe license terms would have to allow redistribution explicitly for any
flavor of it to be non-infringing--they don't have to prohibit some flavors
specifically, yes?

David