<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The difference may be that any bit of script may be taken by yahoo for commercial exploitation for free</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">and without recourse to legal action in case they would want to take it back. As they say, you grant yahoo</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">the royalty-free.... bla bla bla... </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This is not the case with GPL or SourceForge. if Im correct. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Also Im pretty sure we dont have the grant or warrant from the owner that they do so...</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Correct me if im wrong...<br>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>David Bovill <david@anon.nu></b></font>
<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: metacard-admin@lists.runrev.com</font>
<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">12/09/03 03:18</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Richard Gaskin wrote:<br>
> MisterX wrote:<br>
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>>it's probably changed now but this was yahoo's agreement..<br>
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>>By submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you automatically grant, or<br>
>>warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted, Yahoo the<br>
>>royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable<br>
>>right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate,<br>
>>create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content<br>
>>(in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any<br>
>>form, media, or technology now known or later developed.<br>
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> If mctools.mc is made public domain, what difference does it make?<br>
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None<br>
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