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- Hi Folks,
-
- In the U.S. all programs are automatically copyrighted as soon as
- they're written. As such, everyone should be VERY careful about
- redistributing any program or even text file.
-
- Because ARDI includes so many pieces of shareware, demoware and
- freeware in our Executor distribution, it may look like we just
- randomly pick up software and redistribute it. That's not the case.
- We carefully examine anything we pick up and make sure that the author
- has given permission to redistribute it. In some cases we have to
- explicitly ask permission (as we did for StuffIt expander).
-
- Please do not assume that anything you pick up on a bulletin board can
- then be redistributed, even if it is clearly an old application, or
- clearly is a demo version. Some bulletin boards make special
- arrangements with program authors such that their program, perhaps
- even only a demo version, can be freely downloaded by users of that
- bulletin board, but CANNOT be redistributed beyond that.
-
- Always err on the side of cautiousness. That's what we do over here.
-
- Thank you.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
- [BTW, I hope this note doesn't sound too USA-centric. I believe many
- countries have similar laws, due to the adoption of the Berne (sp?)
- guidelines, but since ARDI is a USA company, we are especially
- concerned with USA laws, even though many of our customers are in
- other countries]
-
-