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Skriven 2005-04-25 23:22:17 av Steven Horn (1:17/67.0)
    Kommentar till text 162 av Peter Knapper (3:772/1.10)
Ärende: Changing FTS-0001.
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Peter Knapper (3:772/1.10) wrote to Joe Delahaye at 10:04 on 23 Apr 2005:

 PK> The Copyright line from FTS-0001 reads -

 PK> Copyright 1986,7,8, International FidoNet Association.  All rights
 PK> reserved.                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 PK> As long as IFNA does not legally exist, AND IFNA do not HOLD the
 PK> Legal Copyright version, then the Copyright claim is not valid and
 PK> the document CAN be updated or replaced.

IFNA no longer exists but my understanding is that Tom Jennings may have
inherited its copyrights.

 PK> Now IFNA used to exist as a legal entity in the USA, but my
 PK> understanding is that it was disolved when all the legal issues
 PK> arose around it, so someone may need to confirm that IFNA does not
 PK> exist now, and if that is true then Fidonet can simply ignore the
 PK> Copyright line and change FTS-0001 (removing the Copyright
 PK> statement line at the same time), OR Fidonet can simply declare the
 PK> current version of FTS-0001 to be obsolete and completely replace
 PK> FTS-0001 as needed. 

 PK> The catch to this is that Humans would need to do the ground work
 PK> on this first, but it should be possible.

Why doesn't someone simply email Randy Bush?  As far as I know, he's still at
randy@psg.com

 PK> There is also another way, Fidonet or more specifically the FTSC do
 PK> not legally exist anyway, so they can simply declare the old
 PK> FTS-0001 document to be dead and replace it with a new one, but
 PK> thats the part that needs someone to stick their neck out a bit
 PK> further......;-)

I'm sure the deed could be done if the will was there.  But note that this kind
of action could be used on other facets of Fidonet that some may not have use
for.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn@gmail.com)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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