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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Version 1.3 is out!
Message-ID: <12@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 04:48:14 GMT
References: <1229@raybed2.UUCP> <3274@hubcap.UUCP> <1825@eneevax.UUCP>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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In article <1825@eneevax.UUCP> lbruck@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Lewis S.Bruck) writes:
->In article <3274@hubcap.UUCP> rchampe@hubcap.UUCP (Richard Champeaux) writes:
->>
->>Although this sounds like pirating, my justification is that since I believe 
->>the kickstart disks are freely distributable, or at least I am allowed to make
->>as many copies for my own personal use as I want, copying it to eprom is
->>really no different than copying it to another disk.
->>
->>Rich Champeaux
->>Clemson University
->
->Kickstart is by no means redistributable.  I just picked up my copy and was
->reading the licensing agreement ( I was bored ) and found out that C-A has
->a fairly rough set of requirements, namely only one copy of the disk(s).  I
->don't know about the rest of the world, but until I got my hard disk (praise
->the day...) I had several copies of the Workbecnch commands on different
->disks for different ``environments'' (programming, word processing, typesetting,
->etcetera).  With all due respect to C-A, it looks like a boilerplate agreement
->for all of their software, not for OS stuff.
->
->There is also a point about software not being allowed to be transferred
->electronically between computers.  Is there then a legal way to boot an
->Amiga off a network (at such a time when autoboot Ethernet comes out...)

I hadn't thought of this before, but now that you mention it I have
all my Amiga OS stuff on a MicroVAX which I have been using for a very
long time as my NFS server for TWO different Amigas.  Can somebody at
Commodore clarify their licensing agreement?

->
->BTW C-A, if you wish to press charges against me for too many copies of
->Workbench, I will be glad to return them to you (I like hard disks...:-)
->
->Lewis Bruck

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