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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Comm ToolBox availability?
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Date: 21 Nov 90 22:56:25 GMT
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A thread appeared in some of the other groups, asking where one could get the
Communications Toolbox.

In article <11326@goofy.Apple.COM> rickf@Apple.COM (Rick Fleischman) writes:
>So, with credit card in hand, you can order the Communications Toolbox from
>APDA (without becoming a member) at:

Now, here's an interesting thought.  We have a license to redistribute
MacTCP, the Communications Toolbox, and the Basic Connectivity Set,
"for use only in combination with Developer Programs".

Well, my "Developer Program" is Eudora, a free Macintosh mail package.
Best I can tell, the "lawyerese" does not specify HOW I may redistribute
these programs (I may not be a lawyer, but I have read all three pages
of the agreement, and no mention is made of this).

This leads me to conclude that I am within my rights to put a copy of
MacTCP, the CTB, and the tools up for anon. ftp with Eudora.  I would of
course mark them "these belong to Apple, and are for use with Eudora only",
and you all would of course obey this restriction.

Can anybody else with such a license (it's a form agreement,
"UNIVERSITY COMMERCIAL USE LICENSE AGREEMENT") in their possession
see anything in it that prohibits me from doing this?  I could of
course call Apple and ask their lawyers, but it is perhaps better
to let sleeping lawyers lie.  Besides, I have an old-fashioned
notion that English is English, even if it was written by a High
Priest of the Sacred Law...

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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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