Years ago someone wrote a counter-"license" that was posted on
rec.humor.funny.  From memory, what you do is write this on the back
of the check that you use to purchase the software:

   "By cashing this check, you indicate your acceptance of 
    my License Agreement.  This is a legal Agreement between
    you, the SOFTWARE COMPANY, and me, the END USER.  The
    paid-for SOFTWARE is no longer restricted by any prior
    License Agreement.  Cashing this check indicates that
    you accept my terms.  If you do not agree to these
    terms, do not cash this check.

   "GRANT OF LICENSE: You grant me the right to use as many
    copies of the software as I like.  I can give them
    away if I want to.  Home computer, work computer, Bob's
    computer, Joe's computer -- who cares?  I bought it,
    if I want to copy it, I can copy it.

   "REMOVAL OF OTHER RESTRICTIONS: I may rent or lease the
    SOFTWARE.  I may reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble,
    and create derivative works from the SOFTWARE.  Although
    given your notoriously sloppy coding practices, I probably
    won't want to.

   "GENERAL: You, the SOFTWARE COMPANY, apologize for making
    me play silly games and think about legal crap when all I
    want to do is open your damn disk package and find out
    what new bugs are going to prevent me from getting any
    work done with this software."


I wish I knew who originally wrote this (not me).  Share and
enjoy (since I rewrote it from memory and urge you to distribute
this as much as you like).


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Subject: Re: Selling CD-ROMs/Copyright
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E. Stephen Mack                                         estephen@netcom.com
Corporate Trainer, Diversified Personnel, Oakland, CA   (510) 451-4175
Co-Editor, The October Project