Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!usc!apple!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!tut!funic!santra!hila.hut.fi!jmunkki
From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ResEdit 2.0b2
Keywords: ResEdit, APDA
Message-ID: <1990Aug25.181602.1318@santra.uucp>
Date: 25 Aug 90 18:16:02 GMT
References: <192ldg@yoda.byu.edu> <3928@auspex.auspex.com> <1990Aug23.141733.7040@rbdc> <3998@newton.physics.purdue.edu>
Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system)
Reply-To: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, FINLAND
Lines: 24

In article <3998@newton.physics.purdue.edu> sho@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>Would you please solicit an answer for --
>  Q: If "system" software can be distributed on CI$, AO, etc., why
>     can't I put it on my public FTP site?
>
>from someone in the know? (say, someone from DTS)  Most of us
>basically know that it has to do with the Apple lawyers, and
>protection of copyrights (if a program is given out too freely, it
>becomes public domain by default?) but it's just so unobvious that the
>topic seems to come up about once every month.  

I just got a crazy idea that might not work. :-)

Maybe Apple could encrypt software license stuff and set the password
to something like "This software is copyright 1990 Apple Computer". That
way anyone who used the software would absolutely have to read the
copyright notice somewhere and even aknowledge it.

As I said: crazy idea that might not work...

   ___________________________________________________________________________
  / Juri Munkki	    /  Helsinki University of Technology   /  Wind  /   HP S /
 / jmunkki@hut.fi  /  Computing Center Macintosh Support  /  Surf  /   48 X /
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~