Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpcc01!hp-ptp!davew From: davew@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Dave_Waller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: PD defragger Message-ID: <9380005@hp-ptp.HP.COM> Date: 6 Jun 90 00:01:52 GMT References: Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca. Lines: 21 cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) writes: > I am in a sticky situation here. > > I have received at least 30 requests for the hard disk defragger that I > received from another user (forgot his name and lost his %&&*@# mail). > The thing worls well, but I cannot ascertain if it is PD or shareware > or anything. The only information is the following blurb when you > click on the SHOW INFO menu and look under the version header: > > Defragmentation Control Panel by > Steve Bryan c 3 February Well, technically speaking, Steve Bryan has copyrighted the software as of 3 February, without any conditions stated under which it may be copied. However, as no year is given as to the copyright date, it is questionable as to whether or not it is a legal copyright. Try posting to misc.legal and see if someone there has an answer. Dave Waller \ The opinions expressed are solely my own, and in no way Hewlett-Packard Co. \ represent those of my employer (but we all know dave@hpdstma.ptp.hp.com | hplabs!hpdstma!dave \ they should!)