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They are undoubtedly for those customers, but legally you have to enforce copyrights to keep them. There is no way that Adobe could argue that they are still en
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
They are undoubtedly for those customers, but legally you have to enforce copyrights to keep them. There is no way that Adobe could argue that they are still enforcing copyright restrictions on the binaries of CS2.
- nandhp 12y agoYou're confusing copyright with trademarks. Trademarks must be defended if you want to keep them (this is logical: if other people are using them, they are no longer a mark of your trade). That doesn't apply to copyright; it's an entirely automatic process.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoYou are right. Thinking it through you can of course put a restrictive license on stuff that is publicly available, otherwise of course open source would not work. What Adobe may have done is confused their original license terms by posting a download with key, so a court is very unlikely to award more than nominal damages should Adobe get annoyed with it being used, but you are perfectly correct, their copyright still holds up.