Re: Delphi 6 pesonal - download?

From: Nick Hodges [TeamB] (nickhodges_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: 21 Jul 2004 20:50:39 -0700

Brent S. wrote:

First, please not that IANAL.

> You've got to be joking. Something Borland published for years on
> their own website, which has a license agreement attached which you
> have to agree to in order to install, and which you can get off of
> backordered magazine cds is illegal to download?

No, sorry, I'm not joking and it is a violation of Borland's copyright
to download it.

Notice that I haven't said anything about the wisdom of that. If it
were up to me, that file would be freely distributable, but the fact
remains that it isn't.

> So if I have it on my harddrive is it now illegal just because its no
> longer on Borlands server?

I'm not sure how that follows. If it is legally on your harddrive, of
course you can install it. You cannot, however, distribute it or make
it available for distribution.

> What am I missing, because this can't possibly be your
> arguement.

It's not. 

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Nick Hodges -- TeamB
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