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Re: LYNX-DEV CONTEXT patches for keystroke help files
From: |
Hamish MacEwan |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV CONTEXT patches for keystroke help files |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Feb 1997 12:08:55 +1300 (NZDT) |
Once, Foteos Macrides wrote:
> If
> you set up Lynx to send:
>
> User-Agent: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible)
>
> you are claiming that the request came from copyrighted software
> (Netscape v3.0), which is untrue,
You are saying, only that your user agent is functionally
indistinguishable from ... etc. etc...
> and whether the "compatible"
> supplementary information absolves you of a copyright infringement
> is an as yet untested legal question.
Precisely, untested, hence:
> The warning that Netscape
> considers it a copyright infringement most certainly should be
> retained by Lynx.
Netscape's warning (read "opinion") is about as valid it's "claim" to
HTML compliance.
> I can't imagine (but it's *just* my personal opinion) that
> Netscape would take legal action if Lynx users occassionally did
> that to see if in fact Lynx could handle what a site discriminating
> against Lynx is offering, and then took the initiative to inform
> that WebMaster that it's descrimination is unjustified. But who
> knows for sure?!?!?
For sure? On this planet? In this reality? Hmmmm, tough.
> Fote
Hamish.
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