Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!amiux!holgerl From: holgerl@amiux.UUCP (Holger Lubitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: amiga's PD Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 91 21:47:54 GMT References: <50587@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: Teuwag Lines: 26 In article <50587@nigel.ee.udel.edu> GELSON%SBU.UFRGS.ANRS.BR@uicvm.uic.edu (Gelson Dias Santos) writes: >No! There is a program called X-COPY III in PD. Some britain's PD librarys >have it in their's ads. Look on Amiga Format Magazine. And if you have it, >please send me a copy! (I can't buy from there because I live on Brazil) It's a difficult story with XCopy. The original XCopy was released by Cachet in Germany. It soon got hacked-up and enhanced by some crackers. Then Cachet took the enhanced version, hacked it up again, and sold it as XCopy 2.x. Once again XCopy got hacked up and enhanced by crackers, the so-called XCopy III was ready. Cachet took this one, hacked it up again, and sold it as XCopy Professional. They hold the copyright on the original XCopy though, and even if one could argue that they have no right to sell the program with portions of code by the crackers in it, the crackers had no right to spread out the modified versions at all. And they are certainly not PD. So those british PD-Librarys are simply selling some copyrighted stuff. They seem to be lucky that no lawyer got interested yet... Best regards, Holger -- Holger Lubitz, Kl. Drakenburger Str. 24, D-W-3070 Nienburg/Weser