Author: pete
Date: 14:27:37 06/22/99
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On June 22, 1999 at 13:44:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Another interesting factor : what exactly is the meaning of publishing ; are you really publishing anything when you make a post in an Internet Forum ? I have serious doubts on that ! Nobody knows who is responsible for the things posted , how should that be proved ?? I think _if_ this license agreement is of any worth it may be if you write an article in a journal where someone is responsible in person for the contents. And which court in this world would punish anyone for posting computer chess games and who would call a court anyway ? I think this could be little different if suddenly Ossi Weiner would post 100 losses of fritz 5.32 against Shredder 3.0 and claiming it to be the games of a match over 100 games :) ; although those programs have no license agreement like that . Pete
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