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From: lhummel@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Disk recall notice
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Date: 10 Jun 90 22:48:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!lhummel    Jun 10 17:48:00 1990


The Tetris clones on Fish Disks 173, 221, 230, 238, 305, and 324 have been
removed from the Amiga Archive at UIUC.  This action will rest pending upon
the resolution of Spectrum-Holobyte's possibly legitimate claims of copyright
infringement.

I ask that all FTP sites that take their Fish Disks from the UIUC collection
remove the zoo files from their Fish Disk archives as well.

Let me add that I do not necessarily agree with S-H's bullying: their claims
may be largely valid, but in many ways I doubt that they are sufficiently valid
for all of the programs withdrawn.  Nonetheless, The Amiga Archive at UIUC
purports to provide a VERBATIM collection of Fish Disks, and if Fred Fish
withdraws a program from one of his disks, then NOBODY CAN LEGITIMATELY CLAIM
THAT A DISK CONTAINING A WITHDRAWN PROGRAM IS A FISH DISK.

If it is granted by Spectrum-Holobyte or by legal decision that a withdrawn
program does not represent an infringement of copyright, then I will again
make that program available outside of the Fish Disk directory tree on ux1.

< Lionel
  Co-administrator of the Amiga Archive at UIUC:
  128.174.5.59    ux1.cso.uiuc.edu ux1 uiucux1