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- From: rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Shareware laws (was: GifConverter or JPEGView better?)
- Keywords: shareware
- Message-ID: <Jan.12.11.18.31.1993.18389@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:18:32 GMT
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- OK, I'll risk starting a flamewar :-)...
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- I recently posted a response to the question on the Subject line,
- saying that you are legally obliged to either pay the shareware
- fee on shareware you're using, or to delete it from your disk.
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- I got several responses by email asking what the legal precedent was.
- Does anyone know of one? I don't keep up with software court cases!
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- Actually, I don't see why any special law is necessary. If the
- shareware license provided by the author says that you've got to pay
- if you keep it, then that's that! Similarly, consider the used-car
- dealer who says you can take the car for a test drive. If you never
- come back from the test drive, are you not stealing?
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- -Ralph
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- Ralph Gonzalez, Computer Science, Rutgers Univ., Camden, NJ
- Phone: (609) 757-6122; Internet: rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu
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