Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!apple!dlyons
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ShareWare blues
Message-ID: <34461@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 89 02:17:39 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <10886@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>[...]
>I thought the "shareware" obligation was solely moral, not legal.
>It's not covered by contract law.  It's not covered by copyright
>or patent law.  It's not covered by tort or criminal law, so far
>as I can see.  Is there a legal obligation?

(I'm not a lawyer.)  Doesn't a copyright holder have the legal right
to specify under what conditions the copyrighted material may be
distributed and used?

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