To end this copyright discussion

[nathan@parka.winternet.com (Nathan Mates)]

Well, I and several other folks have all been arguing that if an
author chooses to restrict distribution, it is to be followed despite
what you think of the author's restrictions or motivations for that.
Some others have been arguing the reverse. Sorry for not dredging
up the FAQ on copyrights yet, but here's the relevant section from
it:

In the United States, these seven rights are recognized: 

   1) the reproductive right: the right to reproduce the work in
      copies;
   2) the adaptative right: the right to produce derivative works
      based on the copyrighted work;
   3) the distribution right: the right to distribute copies of
      the work;
   4) the performance right: the right to perform the copyr the
      work and to prevent the use of his or her name as the author
      of a work he or she did not create;
   7) the integrity right: the right of an author to prevent the
      use of his or her name as the author of a distorted version
      of the work, to prevent intentional distortion of the work,
      and to prevent destruction of the work.

                                 17 U.S.C. 106, 106A.

The rest of the FAQ is too big to post here; you can it on the web at
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/Copyright-FAQ/part1/faq.html
[actually that's the hethe start of it; replace the 'part1' with
'part2' thru 'part5' for the rest. If you have any problems with the
FAQ, I suggest you contact its maintainer.

Nathan Mates

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