Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:46:55 12/09/05
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Let's suppose that there is no law against it. It is clearly against the author's wishes. For that reason alone, it should not be posted without permission. But I think at least due to copyright permission, you would have to have permission to distribute a copyright protected work. Clearly, his program is a copyright protected work. So I think that for legal reasons he should have permission. In any case, I think it not a good idea to circumvent the author's wishes. He was very generous to let us try it free on a limited time basis. Just because it is easily possible to do what he does not want us to do does not mean that we should do it. Suppose that someone asks and he says "No. Do not distribute it." Then I think that is a clear message that it should not be done. He may also say that it is OK. Since he owns the intellectual property, it should be the author's wishes. Just because it is incredibly easy to go against his wishes does not make it a good idea. I also think it starts a very bad precedent. If you are nice to the people on CCC, then they will do any harmful thing that they want just because they are able. That is not a good reputation to hold.
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