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From: ingoldsb@ctycal.COM (Terry Ingoldsby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Summary: Clean your own house
Message-ID: <350@ctycal.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 89 18:58:49 GMT
References: <32402@apple.Apple.COM> <627@acheron.UUCP>
Organization: The City of Calgary, Ab
Lines: 32

In article <627@acheron.UUCP>, clarke@acheron.UUCP (Ed Clarke/10240000) writes:
> From article <32402@apple.Apple.COM>, by postmaster@apple.com (Erik E. Fair):
> - I have been asked to post the following announcement widely.
> - 	Erik E. Fair	apple!fair	fair@apple.com
> - Apple's consent or authorization.  Any copying or use of Apple's source
> - code constitutes willful copyright infringement and knowing possession
> - of stolen property, and may result in both civil and criminal
> - penalties.
> 

What if somebody stole a recording from a recording studio and played it over
a radio station.  Would all the people receiving the transmission be at fault?
They just happened to have their radios turned on at the wrong time, and received
the stolen material.  Perhaps one of the people with their radio on was talking
long distance to a relative, and the song got transmitted via the telephone.
Would the telecommunications company then be held responsible for carrying the
stolen transmission?

I agree with a poster that suggested that we be given specifics of what we are
supposed to remove.  I also agree that Apple has every right to advise people
that, should stolen goods arrive on their system they should be deleted.  I
think it is important to clarify that transmission of stolen goods is the fault
of the poster, not of all the sites that might unwittingly carry the traffic.

Catch the thief that stole the code from Apple; don't engage on witchhunts that
serve no purpose.


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  Terry Ingoldsby                       ctycal!ingoldsb@calgary.UUCP
  Land Information Systems                           or
  The City of Calgary         ...{alberta,ubc-cs,utai}!calgary!ctycal!ingoldsb