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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Click to Agree? (was Re: the ultimate IF archive)
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"David Thornley" <thornley@visi.com> wrote in message
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> That's not a license issue, that's a copyright issue.  Windows is
> a copyrighted product, and making copies and distributing them is
> illegal without specific permission from the copyright holder.

Yup.

> The difference is that either the IF Archive gives us some sort of
> right to make copies or we're all a bunch of illegal copiers anyway.

*shrug*  I would've thought the author would have granted the right to
distribute copies to the IF Archive by uploading it, not grant you the right
to make copies through downloading it.  That would seem to be the sensible
way to do it; the right to redistribute is given to those who do the
distribution, but not to the end-user.

Anyway, I think it's better I just shut up now.  Being called a troll does
wonders for one's desire to press an argument further you know :)

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Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)


