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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
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Subject: Re: Copyright notices (was: Shareware? Hah!)
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Date: 3 Mar 88 03:14:53 GMT
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In article <845@unmvax.unm.edu>, mike@turing.UNM.EDU (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
> In article <1464@netmbx.UUCP> hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) writes:
>>This is positively wrong. It is not (!) legal to copy the work of
>>someone else.
>>In fact, it's illegal to copy software at all. You may make up to seven
>>backup copies of software you buyed, but you must not give any away (for
>>the case of fire or the like..).
> 
> ACK!!!! WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WR[erp!]

Michael, look before you leap.  (And if you can't read the notices
posted around the pool, have someone read them to you, slowly, if
need be.)  Ahem!

Hartmut from (west) Berlin was describing How Things Work over there,
in Germany.  Not how they (in theory only, it appears) work over here
in the States.

The handling of patents and copyrights in the U.S. isn't necessarily
the same as in Canada, Germany, Mexico, ...

Now, do you want to try again?