Alan, 
Thank you for at least saying that much. :-)

Shimon

> On Wednesday, 05/03/2006 at 10:45 ZE2, Shimon Lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote: > Won't someone from IBM comment?
> 
> You're asking for legal interpretations of your license and it ain't gonna
> happen.  Not no way, not no how.
> 
> Your license comes in one of two forms: The IBM Agreement for Programs 
> (aka IBM Customer Agreement, ICA) or the International Program License 
> Agreement (IPLA).
> 
> Here are a couple of points to keep in mind when you ask your legal 
> counsel about the above agreements:
> 1. What you can do with "Restricted Materials of IBM" is limited by your 
> license agreement.
> 2. Your license has prohibition on use as well. You may not "sublicense, 
> assign, lease, or rent" your software to others.  These words have legal 
> meanings that I will not speculate on.
> 
> Your legal counsel would have to weigh in on whether assembling your IBM 
> code with someone else's patch and sending the output back to them 
> violates any of the relevant portions of the license agreement.
> 
> Laws vary from state to state and country to country, so don't assume 
> anything.
> 
> Regards,
> Alan Altmark
> IBM
> 

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