Well there doesnt seem to be any copyright notices in their readme files.
Most places which dont want you mirroring stuff make it very obvious. And i
cant see anyone being bothered about the older digital stuff anyway!  It has
no real commercial value to compaq.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-alpha-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-alpha-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Lord Isildur
> Sent: 14 May 2002 22:12
> To: cprice@its.to
> Cc: Lars; Matt; port-alpha@netbsd.org; port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Off-Topic: Goodbye to ftp.digital.com?
>
>
> hmm, good point.
>
> but we just implemented a store-and-forward network which copies the
> traffic at every hop, and those along the way were merely network feeds
> for the user who's last in the chain to mirror for his personal use. We
> just happened to have lots of disk space lying around.. i happened to be
> upgrading my store-and-forward node because of unusually high 'network'
> load hehehehe
> ;)
>
> seriously though, it is a good point. i suggest we certainly dont make it
> very public if we mirror it. maybe somebody closer to the Hpaq could
> probe to see what they say about mirroring?
> isildur
>
> On Tue, 14 May 2002 cprice@its.to wrote:
>
> >
> > 	I hate to be a wet blanket, but has anyone considered the copyright
> > implications of this endeavour?
> >
> > 	IANAL, but mirroring it for personal use is fine I would think.
> > Mirroring for public concumption could possibly be very bad..??
> >
> > 	Sorry guys, but I don't want to see any of us get in shite.
> > Digital/Compaq/HP have sent mixed messages over the years.
> >
> > 	Cheers
> >
> > 	Chris Price
> >
> > Lars wrote:
> > >
> > > I could try the eu site, i have a nice 100mbit connection and
> about 40gbs
> > > left i think..
> > >
> > > Lars
> > >
> > > On Tue, 14 May 2002, Matt wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:32:14PM -0400, Lord Isildur wrote:
> > > > > bummer!
> > > > > well, good luck rescuing the disk, i hope you didnt lose
> much data from it!
> > > > >
> > > > > wget reports that it has finished wgett'ing all of
ftp.digital.com!!
> > > > only 6.4 gigs, too. i'll start on gatekeeper momentarily.. is anyone
on
> > > > the list closer to the european site, so it doesnt have to go over a
slow
> > > > line all the way to the us?
> > >
> > > I can try grabbing the european site if anyone wants, I'll sneak onto
> > > a work server, 6.4GB at the most is not too bad.
> > >
> > > I've just started, am getting ~80 KB/s if that's good enough?
> > >
> > > Matt
> > > --
> > > "Phased plasma rifle in a forty-watt range?"
> > > "Hey, just what you see, pal"
> > >
> >
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> >  Home: http://www.cryptr.net/
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> >
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