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From: whh@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Commercial software in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Message-ID: <24838@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 89 22:27:29 GMT
References: <6191@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2967@looking.UUCP> <6203@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2987@looking.UUCP>
Organization: Pacific * Bell, Oakland, CA
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In article <2987@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> 
> All commercial packages sell you both the bits on the disk and the
> right to run them.  Nobody would buy the packages if they didn't come
> with the right to run.

I believe this is in error--the standard "shrink-wrap" licenses explicitly
*do* *not* sell you the bits--they only license you to use them.  This is
where they will try to tell you that they still own the program and you
have their permission to use one copy.

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