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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PKZIP license (FAQ?)
Message-ID: <1991May17.134304.27799@mccc.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 13:43:04 GMT
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In article <40790009@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.> everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Everett Kaser) writes:
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= pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) ...
=>I think that it has been established (although not tested in the
=>courts) that not paying for or registering shareware is *not* illegal. 
=>It may be "cheating" but ...
=>
=>Pete
=
=I realize that there is probably some legal mumbo-jumbo that justifies your
=use of words,

Oh, no -- ny use of words is justified merely by my existence!  ;-)

=but it seems somehow strange to say in the same breath that
=something "has been established...[a]s *not* illegal" but "not tested in the
=courts".  *WHO* can establish whether something is illegal or not *BESIDES*
=the courts?  Legislatures can pass laws to make things illegal, but until the
=courts interpret those laws, the actual illegality of the particular act is
=not really defined.

You're right.  I should have said that not paying for shareware has not
been proven to be illegal.

Pete
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