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Subject: Re: Question for Johan de Koning. - "Deadking" legality question

Author: Robin Smith

Date: 15:51:12 09/08/03

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On September 08, 2003 at 18:49:03, Robin Smith wrote:

>On September 07, 2003 at 18:08:14, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>My definition is quite simple.  If the software violates the licenisng
>>agreement, it is illegal.  I have read the UBI Soft licensing agreement and like
>>most agreements, distrubuting licensed modified code to others (registered or
>>not registered ) users is prohibited.  That is exactly what deadking is, it is
>
>NO!! Deadking does NOT distribute ANY UBI Soft code. It is a program, seperately
>written, that modifies UBI Soft code. If you don't have theking.exe, which is
>NOT included with deadking, then deadking will not work. It was designed by its
>programmer only for legal owners of CM9K. Although I am not a lawyer, I don't
>believe there is anything illegal about deadking.
>
>Robin

P.S. The only reason I even bought CM9K was because of deadking, making it much
easier to use Chessmaster within the Fritz GUI than the other cludges. At least
in one case (mine), deadking helped CM9K sales.

Robin



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