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From: ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralf Brown)
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Subject: Re: v11INF3:  Poll on copyrights
Message-ID: <214@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 10:34:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 10:34:42 1987
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In article <7418@oliveb.UUCP> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
>In article <208@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> I write:
>>                                                             Of course,
>>most license agreements prevent you from loading the program into memory :-)
									  ^^^^
>
>Could we lay this one to rest.  As I recall there is a provision in the
>copyright law about "normal and intended use" which allows for the load
>(copy) of a program into memory for execution.  [..]
>
>					Jerry Aguirre

Perhaps you overlooked the :-)....  I was being sarcastic, having seen a
number of license agreements with clauses like "licensed for a single
computer only, may not be used on any other machine once used on the
first machine" and "licensed for a period of N years only".  And of course
all the clauses preventing you from modifying it to better suit your
needs (or maybe even make it usable at all :-( )

I wish all license agreements were like Borland's--"treat it just as
you would a book, with the exception that you may make as many backup
copies as needed."
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