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From: smvorkoetter@watmum.waterloo.edu (Stefan M. Vorkoetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PLANETS.COM
Message-ID: <3372@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 88 15:58:11 GMT
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In article <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> tknight@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (T.Knight - Computing Services) writes:
>
>   A few days ago someone was asking for source to PLANETS.COM that was
>posted recently. I just ran PLANETS through CHK4BOMB and found a
>"Copyright 1985 Borland Inc." message in it. When you invoke PLANETS
>it displays the message "PLANETS V3.0 is a Public Domain Program". Looks
>like someone's doing a little piracy.
> 
>  Perhaps one of our virus experts could check it out to see if whoever
>removed the copyright message added a few undocumented features, like disk
>formats, etc. Anyway its definitely pirated software that's been altered
>so use at your own risk, both physical and moral !!.


This message is in the executable of any program that is compiled with
Turbo Pascal.  This is the copyright notice for Borland's run-time library,
which can be freely distributed as part of an executable as per the Borland
licence agreement.  PLANETS.COM is therefore not pirated.  Whether or not
it has any bombs in it I cannot say of course.

Please be more careful before you accuse someone of piracy.

Stefan Vorkoetter
University of Waterloo