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From: vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Strangest Software License I've Ever Seen
Message-ID: <1405@wanginst.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 09:01:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 09:01:05 1985
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Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.  01879
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Yesterday, I bought a copy of "Pinball Construction Set" by Bill Budge.
Unlike some companies, Electronic Arts does not impose any license or
usage restrictions on the user.  Instead, Apple does:

	"Macintosh System Software are copyrighted programs of Apple
	 Computer, Inc. licensed to Electronic Arts to distribute
	 only in combination with Deluxe Music Construction Set.
	 Apple Software shall not be copied onto another diskette
	 (except for archive purposes) or into memory unless as part
	 of the execution of Deluxe Music Construction Set.  When
	 Deluxe Music Construction Set has completed execution Apple
	 Software shall not be used by any other program."

Ignoring the obvious error (that the Mac system is licensed for use with a
program I don't have instead of the one I bought), this is still mind-
boggling.  If I move another program onto the PCS diskette and run it, 
I'm violating Apple's rights?  If I run a program from another diskette, 
but that diskette doesn't have a system file, Apple can sue me?  If I
fail to reboot my Mac after running PCS (because INIT's hang around in
memory) Apple will haul me into court?  Too bad net.bizarre isn't with us
any more...

So far as I can see, the system and finder are just the plain old system
and finder.  They are indistinguishable from the system and finder that
your local Apple dealer will *give* you, without restriction, if you
bring in a blank diskette.

Anyone from Apple or Electronic Arts care to comment?

-- 
Ephraim Vishniac
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