Message-Id: <199601311728.LAA12140@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:24:15 -0600 From: Scott Salzman <mailto:salzman@STOLAF.EDU> Subject: Re: WebPAC and ALS/Vmark licenses To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Lori A. Schwabenbauer, Camden County Library wrote:> the abovementioned products. However, our concern about licensing is the
same. > DRA tells me that whether the user is on the Web, telnetting, in-house,
dialup, > or whatever, if they're in our catalog they're using a license. Additional
> licenses are costly (as I'm sure they are for every vendor). But we want
Does the fact that HTTP is a "connectionless" protocol (and so, presumably, the amount of time that webcat clients actually tie up user licenses should be shorter than with session-oriented connections like telnet) have any impact on the webcat licensing situation, or do most of the commercial webcat's use connection-oriented sessions? If my ignorance of commercial webcat products makes my question moot, please feel free to turn it into "How do the commercial webcat's handle "connection-oriented" sessions?". This might be of general interest anyway.
P.S. I know that there also home grown web interfaces to OPAC's, but I assume that they don't generally present licensing concerns.
Scott Salzman (507) 646-3635 Systems Librarian mailto:salzman@stolaf.edu St. Olaf College Libraries Northfield, MN, USA