danr@ais.org (Daniel Romanchik) (04/24/91)
In article <1991Apr16.200713.26358@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes: >There is one major catch, which must be made clear here. The >Scrabble documentation file says: "PC-Sig is the only shareware >distributor [that] is authorized to carry version 1.0 of Scramble in >the United States". This international FTP distribution system is >making rules like this more than a bit problematic and clearly >obsolete (recall the much discussed case of pkzip encryption). >Since garbo.uwasa.fi is situated in Europe, I'll make the file >available or our archives. But for the record I have to ask the US >users strictly to observe the stated statute, and not to download >this file from us, _or_ whatever the proper legalities dictate over >there. (What else could I do, than to append this disclaimer!) > Isn't this defeating the purpose of shareware? BTW, is there an on-line catalog for PC-SIG anywhere? Regards, Dan (danr@ais.org)