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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Blindness / pirating
Message-ID: <8730@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Oct 88 20:13:16 GMT
References: <186@orbit.UUCP> <1268@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1268@cod.NOSC.MIL> rupp@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William L. Rupp) writes:
>... it's the license that is the heart of the copyright, not the
>actual diskette itself.

Licensing comes under "contract law" and has nothing to do with copyright.
Many states do not recognize so-called "shrink-wrap licenses", i.e. the
attempt to subject you to automatic licensing constraints when you
purchase a product off the shelf.  However, if you signed a license
agreement as a condition of obtaining the software then you are legally
bound by the terms of the license.