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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Legal to include Command.COM on disk of commercial s/ware
Message-ID: <1080@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 89 01:03:53 GMT
References: <8908262022.AA00807@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu>
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In article <8908262022.AA00807@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu>, ia4@CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Imran Anwar) writes:
> 
> 	PLACING A COPY OF COMMAND.COM ON S/WARE FOR SALE: LEGAL?

no way jose.

> 
> A friend of mine is developing a program for the IBM PC line but for it
> to be functional it has to have an uncorrupted Command.COM on the same
> disk.

Tell him to write a small installation program that can copy command.com
from the user's disk to his disk (or to install his program onto thier disk.)

> 
> Does he need IBM's permission to do this or pay royalties or what?
> 

If he really wants to he probably could, but would it be worth it?  Also
he would have to ensure that it would work with whatever version of MS-DOS
was running.


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