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Re: Eli copyright - too restrictive?



lamble@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr Stuart Lamble)  wrote on 04.11.96 in <199611040543.QAA10325@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>:

> The Regents of the University of Colorado hereby grant you a
> non-exclusive license to use the program contained in this directory,
> subject to the terms and restrictions set forth in this License
> Agreement.

So far it's ok ...

> The software and documentation enclosed are copyrighted with all rights
> reserved.  Under the copyright laws,  the software and documentation
> enclosed herein may be copied only for normal use of the software or
> for making a backup copy.  Such copying rights extend to any other
> users who are part of the same organization, provided that they observe
> the terms and conditions set forth herein.  The same proprietary and
> copyright notices must be affixed to any permitted copies as were
> affixed to the original.

*Huh?!*

This one sounds like a specific, commercial license to a single  
organization. It doesn't make any sense at all for freeware that I can  
see.

*Is* this freeware?


MfG Kai

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