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From: rs108@mdx.ac.uk (Robert Swan)
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Subject: Re: Net Yaroze User Agreement
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 14:25:41 GMT
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>This should be quite easy to overcome.
>On our homepages, we can place a header file containing
>a set of #define function macros, which members may download
>and use in conjunction with code placed elsewhere.
>By doing this, the functionality of the code can still be
>quite clear, whilst not sacrificing the required security
>of the Development Tools.

I think that that solution is very neat, and hopefully would bypass
the legal loopholes, but it does lead me to the next point, which is
why are people bothering now with external sites. I mean, if you split
up the header yaroze functions to your main source code either to
allow non-yarozees to look at it, or in order to make downloading
easier, then you are losing that functionality in both cases by
requiring the user has to access the yaroze site anyway. I can
understand people want to tie all the web info together in one site,
but I really dont see moving all yaroze stuff onto the proper server
as a problem. Do others disagree?

The one area I have come across (and hopefully it will get solved) is
the a) the speed with which new american owners get access to our
sites and b) the mechanism by which we get access to american demos,
seeing as they seem to be more prevalent in keeping their stuff off
the yaroze site.

Robert Swan
rs108@mdx.ac.uk
http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~middex2