Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!vw3 From: vw3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vernon Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Desperately seeking Apple 2 E Dos 3.3 SYSTEM DISK Message-ID: <1990Oct30.042138.8999@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 30 Oct 90 04:21:38 GMT References: <1563@kluge.fiu.edu> Organization: Columbia University Lines: 36 In article mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer) writes: >carpentr@serss0.fiu.edu (Ralph P Carpenter) writes: > >> The System Master was recently placed on GEnie (with Apple's >>blessing), in their Apple forums. The lastest ProDOS release (v1.9) > >Does that mean that Apple has made a policy allowing non-commercial >distribution of System disks? I thought that was always the case. >Whether you call GEnie "non-commercial" or not is another story. To distribute Apple System Software you must obtain a licensing agreement from Apple. I think they charge a fee to most groups to do this There are probably special requirements for online distribution though. > >I have a BINscii'd Shrinkit archive of the DOS 3.3 master and program >disk (the last DOS 3.3 release), and I can put this on an FTP >archive if anyone cares, and if it's legal. > It's not legal it seems. Though Apple does not support DOS 3.3 at this time, they still retain full rights to it. To do what you suggest would require that you get an agreement from Apple. >-- >Nick Sayer | Disclaimer: "Don't try this at home, | RIP: Mel Blanc >mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us | kids. This should only be done by | 1908-1989 >N6QQQ [44.2.1.17] | trained, professional idiots." | May he never >209-952-5347 (Telebit) | --Plucky Duck | be silenced +---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ |Vernon L. Williams | Electronic Mail: vw3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu | |Thomas J. Watson Library | Campus Mail: 130 Uris Hall | |Columbia University | Phone Mail: 212-854-6798 |