On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 20:35:25 +1000, Kali McLaughlin wrote: > Sam Wrote:
>> BTW, anyone can order faithful facsimile reproductions of owner's >> manuals for old cars from J.C Whitney and other companies. Although >> this is copyright material, we don't see any notices of license to >> republish and redistribute the same. We never hear of any car >> manufacturers making a stink over copyright piracy and about providing > Funny you say that Sam - My car manual for a 30 year old Toyota is > republished by some third party - I wonder if they paid for the right? > Back to software ... I have a perfect condition box in front of me that > says "Digital Research Concurrent CP/M " on the cover and contains > manuals and three 360Kb disks. Perhaps I should put it on our web page > and see if anyone complains. I don't think anyone would get after you about it. There is a well known CPM guru named Don Maslin who has a web site where he advertises all kinds of CPM software and operating systems. You can order this stuff from him. He will send you copies of the software by snail mail simply for the shipping cost and the costs of the floppies. He has been doing this for years. If he can do it and get away with it, then everybody should be able to do it. As a disclaimer to that last statement I will tell you what a lawyer once told me about that: "Just because everybody does it doesn't mean that it is legal". You can't go into court and argue that what you are doing is legal just because everybody else does it too. I sure hope I never get caught doing what everybody else does. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
