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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Rastan GS
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Date: 8 Oct 90 06:12:41 GMT
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In article <28560@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>>	If I buy a piece of software, I can do anything with it. Or a book,
>>or a record, anything... Books are software for the mind, and records are
>>software for a record player... heh... 
>
>You are purchasing the media.  You are (in most cases) merely getting a
>license from the software company to run the software on your machine.
>Therefore you may mutilate the disk, but CANNOT alter the program.

Phbbbttttt.  There was a little seal there, and it said 'breaking this seal
constitutes agreement to the terms of the license agreement.  I cut open the
bottom of the package, leaving the seal intact.  Therefore, I claim the
license is irrelevant.

>Modifying the words in a book or the music on a record really doesn't have
>much meaning.  However, I suggest you check out laws regarding "derivative
>works", and that you not listen to a word I'm saying since I'm not a lawyer.

If it was 'definitely illegal', magazines like Computist would have been sued
successfully for conspiracy...
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