At 5:15 AM 6/13/96, Brad Salai wrote:
>Not to sound like anyone's mother, but copyright does apply to written things
>too, not just software. In fact, there were no computers when copyright laws
>were first enacted, honest ;-).
>
>Brad
There are also lots of legitimate reasons why you can copy parts of a
document.  For example an excerpt for the purposes of explaining to someone
what the document is like is permitted, so the quote Randy gave in his
email is OK.  I believe someone engaged in research and/or development can
reproduce pieces of stuff for their own use in that work.  The general idea
is that a University professor can xerox a chapter from a book so he has it
available while he's working through an experiment in a lab.  To the extent
that NetBSD is a single legal entity I think we can probably use this
exception to provide limited distribution of a chapter or two from Randy's
book.

Since the book is out-of-print I suspect that the copyright holder would
have no problem formally granting a limited reproduction request---if you
can get anyone to bother to respond at all.

I am not a lawyer.  Use this advice at your own risk.  Note the official
signature.

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