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Article #16649Re: Lawyers say: ExitToShell (Quit) is illegal
From: Joel West
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1987 14:35
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1987 14:35
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In article <2191@husc6.UUCP>, olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson) writes:
| This, like so much else legalese, is clearly intended to be used against
| ABC Corporation in situations not clearly spelled out in the clause. For
| instance, if SuperDuper were a program that takes a Mac disk and translates
| it into an Atari ST disk (for the MagicSac Mac emulator, say), and it is
| distributed with the System and Finder under the terms of this clause, and
| it copies the System and Finder to an ST disk, which is then used on the
| MagicSac.
Maybe. But Apple controls who gets a license and three guesses as to
whether MagicSac would be allowed to get one.
Also, they have different language that covers this problem in the MacApp
license: it says your code has to be for a Macintosh. I'm sure they
could have said:
System and Finder are licensed for use only with Macintosh computers
made by Apple Computer, Inc.
--
Joel West
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