On Thursday, April 12, 2001 7:06 AM, Mike and Karen Goad <[email protected]> wrote: > Much of the warnings found in a software license agreement are to inform > the end user of their rights and limitations under copyright and other > laws, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA). Such software > licenses cannot preempt the law, though. They cannot restrict the use of > information from the software any more than the information would be > restricted if it came from a book, newspaper, or magazine. Any software > statement or license that implies otherwise is misleading. Sure they can restrict the use of the information, public domain or otherwise. They are not required by any law to provide this information to you. If the license is written as a nondisclosure agreement, and if you then access the information and use it outside the bounds of the agreement, you can be sued. (Whether they will find it worthwhile or not is another question.) Scott