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From: store2@ihuxi.UUCP (Wilcox)
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Subject: Re: Magazine programs
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Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 08:57:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  6 08:57:03 1987
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> What is the status of software distributed by subscription on magazine disks
> like STart and Compute! for the ST?  Is it public domain?  Is it illegal for
> my brother-in-law, who has a subscription to both STart and Compute, to send
> me a copy of the disk?
> 
I don't remember what ANTIC Publishing's policy regarding their programs is
but I do remember the last article I saw in Compute!  Their stance at that
time was that THEY did not consider it legal for you to have a copy of a
program from their magazine unless you also owned the magazine.  So if you
get a copy from someone else (saving you all the typing), you should have
bought the issue of Compute! that it was printed in.  

BTW, if you subscribe to DELPHI, you can find the programs from the current
issue of Analog Computing on there according to what they say in the
magazine.  I do not subscribe to DELPHI and have not checked it out for
myself.  Analog only keeps the programs from the current issue on the
board.  They state right under the heading PERMISSIONS in the front of every
issue that BBS's and club libraries can do the same thing for all programs
that are not specifically identified as 'not public domain'.  This seems to
be the most reasonable policy I have seen recently.

Hope this helps...

					Kit Kimes  
					AT&T--Information Systems Labs
					1100 E. Warrenville Rd.
					Naperville, IL 60566
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