Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!oliveb!amiga!boing!dale From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "PD Piracy" Message-ID: <389@boing.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 06:46:59 GMT References: <8809201234.AA02448@decwrl.dec.com> Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca. Lines: 65 In article <8809201234.AA02448@decwrl.dec.com> schabacker@frambo.dec.com (Tim, posting for CB) writes: > > >And to quote the TurboBackup.doc (which is also on that sampler): > > DISCLAIMER > ---------- > > Copyright 1988 by Steffen Stempel and Martin Kopp. > You may distribute this program for non-commercial purposes.> > - Nobody except the authors are allowed to gain any profit by > using and/or distributing this program. This includes the > duplication of commercial disks. > >or let's quote the zoo docs: > > AmigaZoo 1.71 may be duplicated and distributed, or > made available for downloading via telecommunications, > for no fee above normal connect charges. Organizations > charging more than a total of $5.00 postpaid for the > disk(s) containing AmigaZoo are prohibited from > distributing AmigaZoo. It is prohibited to distribute > AmigaZoo as part of any package over which anybody > other than Rahul Dhesi claims a licensing right, right > of distribution, or copyright or compilation copyright > of any kind. It is prohibited to distribute AmigaZoo > with any copyright notices removed. > Forgive for including so much of the original article, I trimmed as much as could but needed to leave some information. I have a software package that is going to require atleast 4 floppies to distribute, AFTER COMPRESSION. I am using the pd compress utility for the installation. However since not everyone has compress on their system, I chose to throw a copy in there as well to make sure. According to the above disclaimer on ZOO, it would prevent me from ever using AmigaZoo as a distribution mechanism even though it may be more ideal. I would not be charging for 'AmigaZoo', AmigaZoo is actually a very small part of the process and is only used to unzoo the binaries and install them on the harddisk. The user is allowed to do whatever they want with zoo when done. AmigaZoo would get greater distribution since it is almost getting a free ride. So it seems to me the only way for someone to make use of a pd program with such a disclaimer is to contact the copyright holder themself and get written authority to reproduce the pd program and distribute the pd program in a way contradictory to the disclaimer. Was that clear? Was there something I missed? -- Dale Luck Boing, Inc. {cbmvax|oliveb|pyramid}|!amiga!boing!dale Although I do contract work for Amiga-LosGatos, my opinions probably don't represent those of Commodore or its management or its engineers, but I think the world would be a better place if they did.