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Re: Instructions on CD ROM?
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Date: 
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 00:31:31 GMT
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SEBarile <steve.e.barile@intel.com> wrote:
I'm not sure you would get in trouble if you quitly sold a CD set for cost of
media plus time. This is a standard practice for share/free-ware (I do realize
that this isn't freeware... my $.02

Yeah, and that's also something that shareware and freeware authors
specifically allow people to do - redistribute and charge for the
media and possibly for the service.  The key is they want people to
distribute their programs.

TLG seems to be politely ignoring kl.net - they certainly haven't
given anything that remotely resembles permission to redistribute the
scans on CD, whether you charge or not.



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(...) You're right. While distributing scans on cd might seem to be the same as on the web, it really isn't. In the real world, distributing bits as atoms is alot different than distributing bits as electrons or photons. Especially when you don't (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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I'm not sure you would get in trouble if you quitly sold a CD set for cost of media plus time. This is a standard practice for share/free-ware (I do realize that this isn't freeware... my $.02 SteveB (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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