Author: Robin Smith
Date: 16:46:47 09/08/03
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On September 08, 2003 at 19:29:22, Mike Byrne wrote: >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. Yes, it says that. They can write anything they want in a license agreement. That does not make what they write legally binding. Such restrictions on modifying something you alrady own do not stand up in court.
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