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Re: adding other gateways
bert@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bert@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 10 01:22:40 1993
About Techinfo:
0) i've been thinking of writing a Techinfo gateway as a Perl
extension for the Plexus server, but I don't know what that would
do to the load on the server... we might want to run the gateway
on a separate port anyway.
1) the "cern" techinfo gateway is only half cern. the authors are
LAM Linda Murphy, University of Pennsylvania
TBL Tim Berners-Lee, CERN
2) the code is in
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/Implementation/TechInfoGate.c
3) cern's web contains cern's copyright and code distribution conditions:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/Copyright.html
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Conditions/Introduction.html
An interesting bit from
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Conditions/Compensated.html
> Providers of free information:
>
> Rule: If the information is freely available on the public Internet,
> then there is no fee for use of the software as long as the
> information is maintained. If maintenace is stopped, for whatever
> reason, CERN reserves the right to reclassify the user as a passive
> user. The rights include all modules available from CERN.
Note that there is a more stringent category of "Academic and
Educational Government Bodies of non-member states"; if we want
the code, we should try and get the "provider" status if we can.
