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From: jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Is it OK to ask System 7.0 programming questions in pub. forum?
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Date: 3 Feb 91 16:16:14 GMT
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In article <11957@goofy.Apple.COM> Greg@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Greg 
Marriott) writes:

> The restrictions on 7.0 betas involve demonstrating it in public, and 
> bugging DTS with questions about it.  Developers are encouraged to 
> discuss 7.0 with each other and ask questions in forums like this one.
> Someone from Apple might even answer them :) :) :)
> 
> Ask away!

Hi Greg, you meanie you (and blue at that :-)

You asked for it, so here's a question that's been bugging me...

Northwestern University is part of the Apple University Consortium, and as 
such we are entitled to "Partner" status.  As our official technical 
representative, I get all the Partner technical mailings.  In particular, 
I've been getting all the 7.0 stuff, including the 7.0b1 "Beta Bang" CD.

Lot of people in the university have been bugging me for copies of various 
pieces of 7.0 - copies of the system itself, copies of all or part of the 
beta draft of Inside Mac vol. VI, etc.  

I know that I can't redistribute this stuff outside the university or give 
public demos of it.  But is it OK for me to redistribute it within the 
university and give demos within the university?

I know this is really a question for an Apple lawyer, not for a nice guy 
like you.  But maybe you can help anyway.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu