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From: jib@prism.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Is a Shareware license enforceable?
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Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 09:40:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 24 09:40:00 1985
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The law is not that you "get to keep it" -- it is that you DON'T have to
respond or send it back.  This may sound like a minor distinction, but it
is not -- you are NOT entitled to make use of the unsolicited merchandise
without payment.

By the way -- shareware is not quite the same -- if you know of the
conditions attached to the receipt of the software, you are contractually
bound to them by downloading the software -- they are conditions of
receipt which you accept by downloading.  If the software is posted (by
the author) without conditions, then you could probably consider it an
unconditional gift.

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