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Article #23779Re: Illegal and wrongful postings
From: Ravi Subrahmanyan
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1986 16:39
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1986 16:39
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In article <1407@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes: > > .... The 'BREAKOUT' desk accessory was *not* public domain. It was >proprietary code from Atari. .......... In defense of Eric, I must say that I too had a copy of breakout.acc, which I fully believed to be a PD product, and which I've given away to some other people; now this whole thing has me worried because __ I got the acc from a local dealer, who has it in a disk of PD software that he lets people copy __. I obviously can't *prove* that's how I got it, but is it an authorised copy if the dealer gave it away? Did Atari mean to sell it, or distribute it through dealers? Is there a legal problem in such a case, ie. does my receiving it free from the dealer mean I am not to give it away also (I can hardly imagine the dealer would give it if he could sell it)? -ravi
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ravi From: ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Illegal and wrongful postings Message-ID: <1850@alvin.mcnc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 11:39:29 EST Article-I.D.: alvin.1850 Posted: Thu Dec 4 11:39:29 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 10:36:59 EST References: <1407@lsuc.UUCP> Reply-To: ravi@alvin.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan) Distribution: world Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC Lines: 17 Summary: The dealer gave it to me!