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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.155528.19231@kth.se>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 15:55:28 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.124107.2807872867@ultramac.uucp>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- In <1992Dec22.124107.2807872867@ultramac.uucp> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
-
- >says contains sample code) comes with the statement "The Software and Manuals
- >contain copyrighted material, trade secrets and other proprietary material
- >and in order to protect them you may not decompile, reverse engineer,
-
- Not _ALL_ the material is under the copyright; it just says
- that SOME of the material on the CD is copyrighted.
-
- I would have no qualms about the sample code; especially since I
- use the Pascal versions for inspiration and then code my own in
- C.
-
- >language attached. And destroying the CD, as required to terminate the
- >agreement under Paragraph 3 of its licence agreement, is a real pain.
- >Trying to break a CD in half by hand is dangerous. I finally had to use
- >a heavy-duty paper punch.
-
- Using a sharp metal object and putting a good scratch through the
- inner part is quite sufficient.
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
-
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
- "You NEVER hide the menu bar. You might go about and change the color
- of it to the background color, but you never HIDE the menu bar."
- -- Tog
-