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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: A sample copyright with limited distribution
Message-ID: <14147@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 90 17:39:05 GMT
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greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:

|Sorry, Sean, but I never agreed to this. Your previous postings show that
|I need worry only about copyright law.  As such, I'll free to modify your
|code as I see fit, remove your name and stick somebody else's name in there,
|and to ignore your disclaimer (which I never agreed to) and sue the living
|daylights out of you if my computer even hiccups once your software has
|somehow gotten onto my machine...

|Ain't it astounding that swords have two sides to them?


I didn't claim anyone had to agree to it. I'm curious if my LIMITS ON
COPYING would be legal and reasonable.

It's a copyright granting limited redistribution, not a license.
The disclaimer of warranty isn't a license either, but a disclaimer. I
don't know if it would hold up in court, but DEC seems to think so and
that's good enough for me.

Sean
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***  Sean Casey          sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean
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