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- From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,alt.sources.d,gnu.misc.discuss,alt.internet.services
- Subject: Re: Your company policy with regards to INTERNET sources
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:53:14
- Organization: Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, MA
- Lines: 38
- Message-ID: <MIB.92Nov16145314@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- References: <1992Nov16.161858.19444@bnr.ca>
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- In-reply-to: scoob@bnr.ca's message of 16 Nov 92 16:18:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.161858.19444@bnr.ca> scoob@bnr.ca (Christian Marcotte) writes:
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- I'd like to know what other companies have in terms of policies
- when it comes to getting & installing sources from the net or
- posting your own sources to the net.
-
- Some are very restrictive and others naively open.
-
- What's your company policy?
-
- 1) with regards to getting sources from the net & installing them
- (yes, no, security aspects, fear of copyright infringments do they
- realize the benefits they're gaining/loosing ...)
-
- We install sources off the net frequently. Some guests do, our system
- administrator does, and various staff people do. We generall don't
- examine such code carefully.
-
- We don't worry about copyright infringement, because sources posted to
- the net generally allow copying. I've never seen one which was posted
- but tried to prohibit use. It's questionable if that would even be
- enforcable.
-
- 2) with regards to posting sources to the net. (yes, no, tightly
- screened, only absolutely totally unrelated to your work stuff only
- ...)
-
- All our source is made available to the net; most is too large to
- post, so it's made available via anonymous FTP. We have no screening.
-
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