Re: Mecc titles

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:

>Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>
>>     Not necessarily. For example, suppose the site manager had contacted
MECC
>>and been told "Off the record, we do not mind if you make the software
available
>>and will not interfer."

In that case, under current law, the site manager is commiting
piracy.  Short of a legal document in writing declaring the
software as distributable, it is not under the law regardless of
what MECC says "off the record."  If the government so
chooses, they can prosecute.  It is still technically piracy.
Only if MECC itself provides a document in writing declaring
the software as distributable, it is legally piracy to distribute
it.

There is a reason why Apple, for example, makes you read
a licensing agreement before downloading HyperCard for
the Apple IIGS or System 6.0.1 for the Apple IIGS.