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From: nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS music player
Summary: interesting...
Message-ID: <881@batman.moravian.EDU>
Date: 16 Jan 90 00:31:33 GMT
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Organization: Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
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In article <9001150503.AA17497@apple.com>, SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes:

>>Would someone be able to upload SoundSmith to Apple2-l?
> 
>***ONLY*** if the author of that (shareware) product permits it PLEASE!!
>Just because software is freely distributed (whether freeware or shareware,
>but ESPECIALLY the latter), the author does NOT reliquish the 'rights' part
>of copyright.

Murph,

SoundSmith is shareware ... but this bring up a very good point.  Just what is
the legal status of anything posted to the network?
 
I was reading a reply by someone in comp.sys.amiga who had gotten the opinion
of a copyright lawyer that anything posted on usenet for the use of others
automatically forfeited his/her copyright since their software would end up on
30,000 machines (or so).

I'm kind of interested in what is said, because if this is so, I won't be
posting ShrinkIt 3.0 or GS/ShrinkIt to comp.binaries.apple2 if I forfeit the
copyright to the program (hope you can understand why).

andy