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From: "JohnT" <johnt@nettech.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Net Yaroze User Agreement
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 12:20:10 +0100
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Hi,

Personally I am following this agreement but I would like to point out a
flaw in the reasoning for this rule. Sony do not want Net Yaroze code to be
used by non Net Yaroze people, yes? Well, if the code is unusable by non
Yaroze people why is it such a risk? Granted the object code and compiled
programs can be disassembled and secrets can be found out from that but the
source code is plain C coding and in a text file so where is the harm from
providing that outside the Sony servers? Non Yaroze programmers don't have
the compiler libs to be able to compile the source and if they have then
they are breaking the copyright laws.

JohnT

George_Bain@Playstation.sony.com wrote in message
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>Hi all,
>
>Since everyone signed this agreement they should follow it.  I
>know that some members have homepages elsewhere on the
>Internet used as a second Yaroze homepage.  This is great but
>you can't release your games or PSX documentation, including
>PSX source code.  This is a strict violation of the agreement.
>Please remove such information if needed.
>
>Regards,
>
>George
>
>