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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "PD Piracy"
Message-ID: <12410@oberon.USC.EDU>
Date: 27 Sep 88 22:27:36 GMT
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Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <629@sas.UUCP> walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) writes:
>Exactly correct.  The author(s) of zoo have a perfect legal right to
>prevent anyone from using their product for any purpose whatsoever.  They
>chose to allow non-commercial uses, and require commercial uses be cleared
>with them first.  The Software Distillery also chose this approach with
>BLink;  several commercial developers (including Lattice, which eventually
>obtained all rights to BLink) contacted us and got our permission to 
>distribute BLink with their product.  Our requirements generally were a
>free copy of the product that included BLink.  Zoo is, however, in a 
>slightly different class, since a major part of its function is to 
>distribute software.  Apparently, the authors chose not to allow commercial
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>distribution in order to protect themselves from exploitation, but if the
>Distillery was responsible, we would have no problems granting permission
>for the use you describe.  I suggest contacting the authors.


This is not entirely correct.  We (Felsina Software) got permission 
to include the Zoo executable in our "A-Talk III installation" disk.
In fact we got permission to include a whole lot of copyrighted,
usually non-commercially distributable utilities, just by asking for
permission. Of course, we do NOT claim ANY copyright on the 4-th party
software we included, nor we do on the collection of it or charge any
extra bucks for the utilities. We had 600K free on the second disk
and we decided to fill it with "useful" PD, shareware and copyrighted
utilities. We have not found one software author that denied us to 
include his software on our disk at the above conditions.


-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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