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- From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 20:05:14 GMT
- Organization: New York University, School of Medicine
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- Message-ID: <1h7sdqINNr0p@calvin.NYU.EDU>
- References: <lsr-211292101905@lsr.taligent.com> <1992Dec22.070755.13175@netcom.com> <lsr-221292105437@lsr.taligent.com>
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- nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) wrote:
- > and in order to protect them you may not decompile, reverse engineer,
- > disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Software to a human-perceivable form.
-
- lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein) replied:
- >I don't have any CDs around to see what the situation is today.
-
- The paper folder that comes tucked into the ETO-8 disk (the
- latest-minus-one ETO shipped, but the latest one I've got here) has the same
- warning about reverse engineering, being a trade secret, etc. They also
- state the "you may not [...] create derivative works based upon the Software
- in whole or in part". If writing an application based on MacAPP isn't a
- derivitive work, I'd like to know what is.
-
- --
- Roy Smith <roy@nyu.edu>
- Hippocrates Project, Department of Microbiology, Coles 202
- NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
- "This never happened to Bart Simpson."
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