Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!jordan
From: jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacsBug available on Compuserve, not net? (Was latest version...)
Message-ID: <31668@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 May 89 23:18:02 GMT
References: <31641@apple.Apple.COM> <1936@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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Dear David -

	It has to do with the fact that Compuserve, Genie, and AppleLink all
keep records of who have downloaded software from them and guarantee that
folks see a license agreement from Apple before they download.  The US
Copyright office says that if you are to maintain your copyright you have
to maintain control over who receives your software.
	I have worked in the past to see if it would be possible to make
MacsBug and ResEdit available over the net and via FTP from Sumex.  The
folks in legal looked into and told me that to do so would make us open to
losing our copyrights according to the US Copyright office.  This is due to
the anarachastic nature of the net, and cannot be addressed without changing
the fundamental nature of the net.


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