Subject: Re: Ultrix/VAX
To: Michael Sokolov <sokolov@alpha.CES.CWRU.edu>
From: Tim Shoppa <shoppa@alph01.triumf.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/30/1998 11:02:43
Micahel Sokolov wrote:
> It has been upheld many times that unsigned shrink-wrap "agreements" have no
> legal power whatsoever. What's really protecting the software is the copyright
> notice, not the so-called "license agreement". DISCLAIMER: I'm not a lawyer,
> only a law-breaker.

And whatever might be true about shrink-wrap agreements has no bearing
to the Ultrix discussion.  An Ultrix license is an Ultrix license, not
a shrink-wrap agreement.  Owning the CD or tape never gave anyone the legal
right to use it.

Tim.