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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ShareWare blues
Message-ID: <10886@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 31 Aug 89 00:45:06 GMT
References: <8908281936.AA23048@trout.nosc.mil> <34409@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <34409@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) writes:
>A polite request doesn't mean there is no legal obligation!

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?