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From: andrew@jhereg.osa.com (Andrew C. Esh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Can MPW be used for non-Mac development?
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.170807.1017@jhereg.osa.com>
Date: 4 Mar 91 17:08:07 GMT
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Organization: Open Systems Architects, Inc., Mpls, MN
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In article <0.27D03BC3@mmug.edgar.mn.org> jspencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.mmug.edgar.mn.org (Jim Spencer) writes:
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>Michael K Donegan writes in a message to All
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>MKD> The last time I read an MPW license agreement it said that you 
>MKD> could only use the software to produce programs for Apple manufactured 
>MKD> computers. Has something changed?  mkd 
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>Must be as the licenses that came with my latest revisions have no such limitation.  In fact, they don't appear to have very many limitations at all other than that the software can only be run on one machine at a time.
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I am the orginal poster of the message. I have received help from two
seperate Apple employees on this, and they referred me to Tech note #240,
which is titled "Using MPW for Non-Macintosh 68000 Systems." It gives
instructions on how to do exactly what I am asking for. I haven't read the
software license, but I would guess that Apple would not have a problem
with what I am doing. As far as the one machine at a time limitation, I
think that applies to the MPW software itself, not what you produce with
it. If Apple tries to retain any rights to the software that is produced
with MPW, most of the programs available for the Mac would be in legal
trouble. MacApp I can understand, since it is source code, and forms a
central part of an application, but MPW is just a tool.

(Being not to happy with the mush about the MPW copyright in the above
paragraph, I went and read the notice in the MPW Manual)

According to the copyright notice, the only "Apple machines only" reference
concerns the Sample Programs, which they license, and retain rights to. The
notice is under a seperate heading, and specifically mentions the sample
code. There is no mention of any other part of MPW being restricted, except
for the normal copyrights on the use of the MPW software itself. I
interpret this to mean that I can do anything I want to with the software I
produce, as long as I do not use any code from the Sample Programs, and I
do not copy or distribute MPW itself.
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Andrew C. Esh			andrew@osa.com
Open Systems Architects, Inc.	
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