Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:6721 comp.sys.mac.wanted:1995 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!ellis.uchicago.edu!dwal From: dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Obtaining MacTCP Message-ID: <1990Dec13.154502.27779@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 13 Dec 90 15:45:02 GMT References: <1$F^+V_@rpi.edu> <2766A630.115C@intercon.com> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago, Academic and Public Computing Lines: 36 In article Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) writes: >In article <2766A630.115C@intercon.com> > kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) writes: >> No you are correct. You can obtain site licenses from Apple. Price >> varies depending on who you are (commercial/university). If you don't >> want site licensing you can get one copy from APDA for about $85 or $100. >> >> If you site licenses a product that MacTCP comes with you should/will >> become site licensed for MacTCP as well. > >That's not quite an answer to what I'm asking. The above sounds like a >product *may* come with MacTCP, or an organization *may* get a site >liscense. My question is whether a product that requires MacTCP is >*supposed* to include MacTCP with the product. If MacTCP products are >supposed to come with MacTCP, then there isn't much reason for an >organization to spend the money for it's own site liscense (unless it's >developing some MacTCP application of it's own, I guess). There's certainly no legal obligation to include MacTCP if you write and distribute a program which uses it. That would be like requiring every Macintosh program ever written to also include a copy of the System software. So you're exactly right: MacTCP _may_ come with a product or it may not. For more specific information, check with the distributor or the author of the program. MacTCP is not like System software: it doesn't come with every new Macintosh, and you can't just give it away to anybody who wants it. >Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu -- David Walton Internet: dwal@midway.uchicago.edu University of Chicago { Any opinions found herein are mine, not } Computing Organizations { those of my employers (or anybody else). }