dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) (11/22/90)
A thread appeared in some of the other groups, asking where one could get the Communications Toolbox. In article <11326@goofy.Apple.COM> rickf@Apple.COM (Rick Fleischman) writes: >So, with credit card in hand, you can order the Communications Toolbox from >APDA (without becoming a member) at: Now, here's an interesting thought. We have a license to redistribute MacTCP, the Communications Toolbox, and the Basic Connectivity Set, "for use only in combination with Developer Programs". Well, my "Developer Program" is Eudora, a free Macintosh mail package. Best I can tell, the "lawyerese" does not specify HOW I may redistribute these programs (I may not be a lawyer, but I have read all three pages of the agreement, and no mention is made of this). This leads me to conclude that I am within my rights to put a copy of MacTCP, the CTB, and the tools up for anon. ftp with Eudora. I would of course mark them "these belong to Apple, and are for use with Eudora only", and you all would of course obey this restriction. Can anybody else with such a license (it's a form agreement, "UNIVERSITY COMMERCIAL USE LICENSE AGREEMENT") in their possession see anything in it that prohibits me from doing this? I could of course call Apple and ask their lawyers, but it is perhaps better to let sleeping lawyers lie. Besides, I have an old-fashioned notion that English is English, even if it was written by a High Priest of the Sacred Law... -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner