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From: jcz@sas.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PD Boot Disks
Message-ID: <246@sas.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 08:22:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: sas.246
Posted: Thu Jun  4 08:22:47 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 07:41:17 EDT
References: <504@myrias.UUCP> <1868@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1541@cadovax.UUCP> <1903@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.,Cary NC,25712
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Summary: isn't the installed code copyrighted ?

In article <1903@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
>    I stand corrected.  If a program doesn't use any disk resident devices or
> libraries (including icon.library), doesn't use Execute(), doesn't use ram:,
> doesn't need workbench or any cli commands, and never ever writes to a
> disk, it can be booted off an Install'd disk which contains nothing else.
> This configuration may be acceptable for some pd running demo type
> applications.
> Carolyn Scheppner -- CBM   >>Amiga Technical Support<<


Isn't the code put on the disk by INSTALL also copyrighted?
This would flatly make any Bootable PD distribution a violation,
unless you had a PD OS.


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--jcz
John Carl Zeigler
SAS Institute Inc.
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