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From: ALBRO@NIEHS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: RE: Copying DOS 3.3
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Date: 23 May 89 18:01:00 GMT
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davidbrierley@LYNX.NORTHEASTERN.EDU wrote to ask about the legitimacy of
distributing DOS 3.3 with shareware.  This comes up in another aspect
also, when a whole-disk-shrinker (e.g.DDD, PBH, etc) is used on a DOS
3.3 disk.  The DOS 3.3 image from tracks 0-2 is included in the archive
and therefore transmitted with it.  Unless Apple has recently released
DOS 3.3 to the public domain, and I don't think they have (but it's
possible), it is and long has been considered copyright infringment to
upload such a packed disk to a BBS.

The disk packer Digipack.GS is a good example of a company going out
of their way to honor copyright laws.  Digipack will archive a DOS 3.3
disk, but specifically avoids including the DOS image tracks.

-Phil Albro-