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From: dave@galaxia.zone1.com (David H. Brierley)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att,unix-pc.uucp
Subject: Re: HDB and rel 3.0:  Should I upgrade to HDB?
Keywords: HDB, 3.0, uucp, unix-pc
Message-ID: <479@galaxia.zone1.com>
Date: 27 Jun 88 17:10:57 GMT
References: <936@flatline.UUCP> <315@ditka.UUCP> <577@n8emr.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@galaxia.zone1.com (David H. Brierley)
Followup-To: unix-pc.general
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In article <577@n8emr.UUCP> gws@n8emr.UUCP (Gary Sanders (n8emr)) writes:
>Yes you should bother with it, but You cant really get it.. It was
>available for a very short time via the STORE, and I am sure that a
>few folks may have picked it up then, but Now its available via the

Here's a good question for you all.  Suppose that I was one of those "few folks"
that grabbed HDB during it's shorted-lived appearance on the STORE.  Since no
restrictions have ever been placed on any of the stuff that I've gotten from
the STORE, am I now free to distribute copies of HDB?  How about this scenario:
suppose someone who had been able to download HDB set up a shell script to take
all of the stuff they had gotten from the STORE and post it to unix-pc.sources.
Could that person be taken to court by ATT for posting licensed software even
though they received the software from ATT without any license restrictions?

PLEASE NOTE: this posting should not be mis-construed as a statement to the
effect that I am in possession of a copy of HDB.  Do not send me messages
requesting a copy of HDB.  I am simply playing a game of "what if".
-- 
David H. Brierley
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