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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ShareWare blues
Message-ID: <10899@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 31 Aug 89 23:18:25 GMT
References: <8908281936.AA23048@trout.nosc.mil> <34409@apple.Apple.COM> <10886@smoke.BRL.MIL> <34461@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <34461@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) writes:
>Doesn't a copyright holder have the legal right to specify under what
>conditions the copyrighted material may be distributed and used?

Sure, IF the material has properly marked with the Copyright notice.
Much, maybe most, shareware that I've seen isn't properly marked.