On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 05:25:25PM -0600, Matt Sisk wrote:
> At any rate, you'd have to prove that someone got the email addresses
> using your program and not from some other source. And what if, for
> example, I just use your program to harvest emails and turn around and
> sell the lists to spammers? *I* wouldn't be spamming, someone else
> downstream would be.
Well, that would be generating lists for commercial sale.
> I'm not sure it's enforceable, but IANAL. It's almost like you are
> trying to attach the license to the email addresses themselves -- or, in
> the more general sense, trying to license the data your program
> produces. Similar to the "viral" argument with the GPL.
Enforcability is always a thorny issue with software licenses,
espcially free software. When all the smoke clears it comes down to
that I can't enforce it unless I caught someone red-handed (like if
for some reason I happened to find a commercial spamming program which
made use of my software). The odds of that happening is, of course,
slim so I guess it boils down to just an academic concern.
Should I even release the module at all? -I- need it for a valid
reason (for marking-up addresses in plain text), but would anyone else
need it for anything but spamming?
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Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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