Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Query on distribution rights for amiga.lib/includes Message-ID: Date: 11 Sep 90 16:05:20 GMT References: <1532@madnix.UUCP> Lines: 53 >In article <1532@madnix.UUCP> jmelv@madnix.UUCP (John Melvin) writes: >Hi, > > A person who wants to try out DICE needs to know how to go about getting >the header files (includes) and amiga.lib. Owning Manx C 5.0, I took a >quick look at the files. The Manx std c includes are stamped with their The Includes and Amiga.Lib are COMMODORE files and copyrighten by Commodore. I cannot distribute them in the FREEWARE version of DICE. I have a license to distribute them in the REGISTERED version of DICE, just as Lattice and Manx have licenses to distribute them with their own products. > So, getting down to the real question: Can these files be copied, and >if not where should I tell this guy to seek them. Thanks in advance for >any help. No, they cannot be copied. Your friend can purchase them from CATS directly (Native Developer's Update, $20 I believe), or he can register for DICE ($40) to get the registered version which includes them. The reason I cannot distribute them with the freeware version, even freeware versions that I send to people personally, is that the copyright notice would become too confusing: "These files here cannot be redistributed but those over there can" etc... Not to mention the fact that my distributing them over a public network would put my inviolation of the terms! Since the registered version is *not* freely redistributable the copyright notice and terms are plain and simple, and apply to the whole product. -Matt >JPM >--- >John P. Melvin > // >UUCP: {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!jmelv \X/ AMIGA > >-- >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >John P. Melvin "Magic is real -- unless declared integer." > // >UUCP: {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!jmelv \X/ AMIGA -- Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US 891 Regal Rd. uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon Berkeley, Ca. 94708 USA