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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 10th Edition demo (legalities)

Author: John Merlino

Date: 08:53:34 07/18/04

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On July 18, 2004 at 11:33:53, Norm Pollock wrote:

>On July 18, 2004 at 07:29:23, Terry Giles wrote:
>
>>
>>Hi CCC friends,
>>
>>I have both CM6000 and CM9000, but what are the legalities about loading the new
>>CM10th ed demo engine into CM9000, as I understand that this demo version will
>>run perfectly well and without any restrictions in CM9000?
>>
>>Terry Giles
>
>Has anyone answered the original question about "legalities"? Is it legal or
>not?

I would guess that there is no problem with doing this, if you are the owner of
a legal copy of CM9000 and you are keeping the files on the same system in which
they were installed.

The CMX000 demo is free, so there is no question that you should be able to use
these two programs "together" without any legal problems (despite the fact that
they were not designed to be used together at all).

Of course, what you CAN'T do is distribute the CMX000 version of The King, even
though you (and everybody else) got it for free. This would be software piracy.

That's how I see it, anyway....

jm



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