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In article <107@wldrdg.UUCP> tony@wldrdg.UUCP (Tony Andrews) writes:
>
>There is a copyright notice in the binary that reads (sic):
>
>	MC68000/AY-3-8910 SPEECH SYNTHERSIZER V:2.0
>	Copyright 1986 A.D.BEVERIDGE & M.N.DAY
>	ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
>
>
>If anyone knows these people or knows for sure that this isn't being
>sold as a product somewhere, please send me mail. I plan to post any
>speech output routines that I come up with, but I'd rather know the
>status of this program before I do that.
>
   That looks an awfully lot like an official copyright notice,
restricting the right to copy the program (or at least parts of it,
like perhaps the speech data and driver) to the original authors.
Copyright has nothing to do with whether or not the program is sold
commercially.  It is illegal to copy a copyright-protected program
(or program segment) unless given the right by the holders of the
copyright.  Period.  To stay legal, you'll have to do a bit more than
just "make sure it isn't being sold" somewhere.  However, if you *do*
get permission, or find out that the data/program isn't protected,
I'd be interested in seeing more, since I'd planned on adapting a
friend's 8086 speech code/data to the ST.  This would save me a bit of
trouble.
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 - Joel ({allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster)

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.  The above is my own understanding of the
law, garnered by many informative postings, articles, etc., by people who
claim to be lawyers.  It has no bearing on what I actually *think* of the
law, since I believe the owner of a piece of software should have the
right to make copies of that software as needed for backup purposes.