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From: rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff)
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Subject: Re: "develop" magazine
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Date: 6 Feb 90 13:51:30 GMT
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In article <1990Feb3.171215.2010@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
>
>Apple sent this to me, unsolicited.  If I don't agree with the full-page
>fine-print licence agreement that accompanies the CD, I am supposed to
>SEND IT BACK?  Did their lawyers really approve this?


Well, since U.S. law says that any unsolicited mail automatically becomes your
property, you can certainly keep it.  I don't know if the license agreement
is binding on you, but you're certainly free to throw the CD out, hang it on
the wall, or use it in any other way that's not a violation of the license.

Personally, I plan to simply use it to store my backup files :-)

   Robert

P.S. Actually, even if you did pay for the magazine, I don't think you have to
send the CD back.  I suspect the "send back" provision is really a "money-back"
offer to encourage people not to violate the license, since it does say that
your money will be refunded if you return the CD.