Re: [syndication] Moreover Terms and Conditions for free use

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

Dave, my guess is that they don't care how you use it -- the language is
probably there so they can stop a competitor from using their resources to
route around them. Imagine a service that read all their feeds, stripped any
advertising or redirection, and presented it as their own. All their
investment in scraping software and running the servers 24-by-7 would just
serve to enable a competitor. On the other hand, if you're a license purist
as many are, you might want to check it out with the Moreover people. Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: <dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 7:22 AM
Subject: RE: [syndication] Moreover Terms and Conditions for free use


> I personally would also like to know how this applies to government use. I
> see nothing in their ToS that even mentions the word "government" so I'm
> curious where we fall. Our specific case is that we are a developer
> organization that manages (designs, outsources for development, maintains)
> some 120 Air Force logistics programs. I had an aggregator built based on
> their feeds to provide current, relevant news to our particular "industry"
> (e.g. defense, software development, security, etc). This was not for a
> "competitive edge" but rather to stay abreast of both current events (part
> of our career advancement requirements as well as just a "good thing") and
> also to explore emerging technology and see if it can benefit our work.
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> By our very nature we are non-profit, and anything the government creates
> for public use is automatically in the public domain.
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> If you ask them for more information, please ask for clarification on
> government use. I believe we fall in the non-profit category personally.
>
> If not, we will probably switch to NewsIsFree feeds instead. I like their
> service more and more every day. Way to go guys. :)
>
> Thanks,
> -dave
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