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- Citizens of those countries which are participants of the Universal Copyright
- Convention (the Rome Convention) are hereby made aware of the following
- copyrights declared on the files within this archive:
-
- All files within this archive are © [or (C)] 1995,1996 Niall Douglas. They
- may be freely distributed at will by whatever means so long as they are
- unaltered and no unreasonable profit is made from their distribution [1].
-
- Please note that in countries adhering to this convention, you are now
- legally prevented from distributing altered copies of the files within this
- archive in any form whatsoever. Please also note that in countries which are
- signatories of the International Union for the Protection of Literary and
- Artistic Works (the Berne Convention), there may be additional restrictions
- imposed on the handling of these files.
-
- Finally, under current legislation in most European countries, computer ideas
- cannot be patented. May I remind those reading that this works both ways -
- thus I can copy things from other GUIs as much as they can copy from me, so
- long as trademark and copyright infringement does not take place. I'm
- assuming that anyone who would nick my ideas wouldn't be so stupid as to name
- them 'tornado', so I haven't bothered trademarking the word. Mind you,
- looking at Apple's trashcan - why bother nicking the idea and then calling it
- 'trashcan' (which is trademarked) when you could call it 'dustbin'???
-
- N. Douglas
- 28th March 1996
-
- [1]: Note here that 'unreasonable profit' would be any profit at all. A
- charge may be levied for the cost & processing and/or postage and packaging
- of a disc containg these files but NOT for the files themselves.
- I would also add that while it is not necessary, I would be very grateful
- if any PD libraries wishing to put discs containing this data available for
- the public would contact me and let me know of them doing this.
-