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From: ephraim@wang.UUCP (pri=8 Ephraim Vishniac x76659 ms 014 590)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Selling of Freeeware/Shareware
Message-ID: <378@wang.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 09:28:23 EST
Article-I.D.: wang.378
Posted: Fri Jan 16 09:28:23 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Jan-87 22:50:07 EST
References: <1646@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <16819@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA
Lines: 9
Keywords: PD, freeeware, shareware
Summary: shareware is copyright material

In article <16819@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, munson@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Ethan Munson) writes:
> Selling non-copyrighted material is legal at any price.  It's the
> same as selling books by Dickens.  You charge what the traffic will bear.
> 
> Ethan Munson

But most shareware *is* copyright material.  And much of it comes with
explicit conditions of use and distribution, which are blithely ignored
by people who make a business of redistributing PD/freeware/shareware.