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From: ollef@osiris.sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Maintaining Copyrights  Was MacsBug available on Compuserve, not net?.)
Message-ID: <2688@osiris.sics.se>
Date: 27 May 89 10:37:05 GMT
References: <31668@apple.Apple.COM> <1944@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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In article <1944@husc6.harvard.edu> maymudes@husc4.harvard.edu writes:
>From article <31668@apple.Apple.COM>, by jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson):
>> 	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.
>
>
>An idea: Shouldn't it be possible for the FTP host to keep a record of who has
>used it (using people's "Password:" response, even though it's not especially
>reliable) and what files have been downloaded (can be picked out from the list
>of commands sent.  Would maintaining this information be enough?


  If the big problem is to assure that folks must read the agreement before
they get the program then there is an easier way to do this: put a password on
the stuffit-archive containing the copyrighted software and then put the
password in the middle of the license agreement text document (which is not
protected). In this way people have to read the agreement to extract the
program.
  But I guess Apple then will have insurmountable problems with the license for
Stuffit...

            /Olle