Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:6328 comp.sys.mac.comm:1737 comp.sys.mac.wanted:1817 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!mha From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Comm ToolBox availability? Message-ID: <1990Dec3.030120.28270@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 3 Dec 90 03:01:20 GMT References: <1990Nov30.042648.24328@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1990Dec1.212640.13301@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: BAKA Computers, Inc. - Ithaca, New York Lines: 38 In article urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: >In comp.sys.mac.comm, article <1990Dec1.212640.13301@midway.uchicago.edu>, > francis@math.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >< In article <1990Nov30.042648.24328@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) writes: >< > >< > >< >The question on your minds... why then can't CTB be posted to >< >USENET? Well, Apple's software licensing requires that the distributors >< >be able to provide information on who has downloaded the software. The >< >USENET distribution methods don't offer that kind of auditing abilities. >< >< Question: do the commercial nets tell their users that they're >< telling Apple this stuff? >< >No -- but are they? All the agreement seems to say (or so the above >information says) is that they are _able_ to tell Apple who did it. I certainly hope so. The licensing agreement we have to sign in order to get permission to distribute the software electronically states that the text of the end-user license be made available to the user before s/he downloads the software. In fact, the agreement requires that the user HAVE to look at the end-user license before being ABLE to download the file. Matthias is right, though, in that Apple doesn't say the information must be sent to them, just that the information must be AVAILABLE to them. I can't imagine they'd want to know in all cases, but in order to retain their copyright, should it ever be challenged, APPLE would have to prove that they have access to that information. If these services aren't telling their users that this information is being kept, and that it is available to Apple, that's not polite. -- Mark H. Anbinder ************************* mha@theory.tn.cornell.edu BAKA Computers * ******* ...!batcomputer!memory!mha 200 Pleasant Grove Rd. H: (607) 257-3480 ****** Ithaca, NY 14850 W: (607) 257-2070 ***** Memory Alpha BBS 607-257-5822