Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:44:49 06/22/99
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On June 22, 1999 at 09:29:14, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >On June 22, 1999 at 06:08:17, Harald Faber wrote: >[...] >>Individual choice... :-) > >Sure, but please don't take my statement the wrong way. I mean, few people today >spend the time to read warranties and licenses cause they are boring (some >people think they are like that on purpose, so to make you sign it and not >really read it) but for instance in Italy you cannot ask a person to don't >resell a copy of a program after having used it (other are the prohibition to >reverse a code, or in some cases to make a backup...). > >Of course one needs to uninstall the copy from the HD before. But for many years >licenses were insisting with the nonsense that one buys the right to use program >and that this can't be sold again. So my approach presently is to dislike in >general statements in the licenses which put restictions on actions were they >can't. > >Imagine what would happen if a company would sell cars asking in the contract >not to tell to other how much gasoline the engine uses in your experience! > >I really don't know and would like to know if this can be done. > >regards >Franz Probably impossible to enforce, so it is meaningless. IE _you_ buy CSTal and Fritz 5.32, and lash them up into an autoplayer match. And _I_ come over to watch. _I_ can certainly post any games _I_ witness as _I_ don't have any license agreement to worry about. I think you could easily get around that without having to worry about legal action, should you want to do so. Just ask a non-CSTal owner to watch the match and report the results... It would be impossible to compel him to say _where_ he watched the match, so that the 'owner' would be safe. Although I think the owner would be perfectly safe to publish everything, since the program author does _not_ have any legal methodology to claim copyright on the games played by his program after the program is sold...
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