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From: CDCKAB%EMUVM1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu ( Karl Brendel)
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Subject: selling old Borland software
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Date: 11 Dec 90 18:19:01 GMT
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Thomas Jenkins, go sell your old software.

Mark Kuebeler and others:

Hoping (without much faith) that this discussion will stop _soon_, I
would urge all to RTFNNLS (No-Nonsense License Statement). The copy at
hand (inside front cover, TPas 5.0 Ref Guide--later versions had
separate cards with the statement) says:

               Borland's No-Nonsense License Statement!

This software is protected by both United States copyright law and
international treaty provisions. Therefore, you must treat this
software _just like a book_, with the following single exception.
Borland International authorizes you to make archival copies of the
software for the sole purpose of backing-up our software and
protecting your investment from loss.

By saying, "just like a book," Borland means, for example, that this
software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved
from one computer location to another, so long as there is _no
possibility_ of it being used at one location while it's being used at
another. Just like a book that can't be read by two different people
in two different places at the same time, neither can the software be
used by two different people in two different places at the same time.
(Unless, of course, Borland's copyright has been violated.)

End of quotation. All emphasis shown existed in the original. The
remainder of the statement addresses distribution of compiled
programs, sample programs and .BGI files, the proprietary nature of
some files, requirements for copyright notices, warranties, and
governing law.

Nowhere in the statement is any indication given that you cannot sell
old versions, just as you would sell an outdated textbook, as long as
you don't retain a copy of what you sell. Borland says "just like a
book," with a "single exception."

Perhaps you'll be pleased to know that this is probably the only
public statement I'll make on this subject. ;)

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