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Article #5216Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
From: Brad Templeton
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 21:49
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 21:49
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Various posters who have pointed out that you can't be bound into a contract by just receiving shareware are 100% correct. And with no contract, the author can't enforce payment of some specific licence fee from you, that's also correct. And with no contract, you also can't use the software without infringing the copyright -- except as specified in the shareware evaluation rules. Having no contract goes both ways, folks. Just because you have no contract, it doesn't mean you're free to infringe copyright. Shareware evaluation takes pace without any contract, it is a gift from the author, but not an unlimited gift. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!watmath!bstempleton From: bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...) Message-ID: <33958@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 3 Feb 90 21:49:17 GMT References: <137@sneezy.tcom.stc.co.uk> <15398@well.UUCP> <1134@utoday.UUCP> <13011@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <3032@netxcom.DHL.COM> <13742@s.ms.uky.edu> <7146.25c595d1@dit.ie> <13912@s.ms.uky.edu> <1201@utoday.UUCP> <1990Feb2.194315.3924@pegasus.uucp> Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18