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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: MAC System 7.0
Message-ID: <107298@becker.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 91 18:29:17 GMT
References: <17202@chopin.udel.edu> <1991Jun3.183732.3135@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> <1991Jun4.064325.11852@watson.ibm.com>
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1991Jun4.064325.11852@watson.ibm.com> sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) writes:
|In article <1991Jun3.183732.3135@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu>, consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg) writes:
||> 
||> I don't see anything illegal about running 7.0 on an emulator, as long
||> as you bought the chips and secured a legal copy of the 7.0 upgrade. 
||> 
|
|	The liscence for System 7.0 FORBADES use on a non-Apple
|product, so, you cannot legally run it on any machine except an Apple.
|This is a cheap shot, and probably won't be enforced, but use of System
|7.0 on an emulator would be illegal.


	Just because a licence asserts some use
	restriction does not in and of itself
	constitute illegality. It serves mostly
	as a warning that the legal staff of the
	licensor may attempt to harrass those
	who do not agree. This may in some cases
	lead to a court action in which legality
	may be determined.

	Note that the licensor doesn't always win:
	"shrink-wrap" clauses have been adjudged to
	be without force in several jurisdictions,
	for example...


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