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

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 16:29:22 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

The UBI Soft License Agreement (page after 67, this page is not numbered):

• You may not modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the
Software, except to the extent that this restriction is expressly prohibited by
applicable law.

I think that is pretty clear cut.



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