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From: paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: PCroute License Requirement
Message-ID: <452@frcs.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 91 09:08:59 GMT
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Organization: Free Range Computer Systems CC
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Thus spake amc@cup.portal.com (Alan Michael Crawley):
>
> If you are using Vance Morrison's code known as PCroute in a commercial
> or government business you may need a license.
>
> The sole worldwide owner of the code and the name PCroute is a development
> company in Pleasanton California called LANport Inc.  They are enhancing it 
> to make it a commercial product.

If Lanport bought the code from Vance (or if Vance formed the company
and decided to go commercial with PCroute), this does _not_ affect
all the copies of PCroute currently in circulation.  It will only
affect the ``enhanced'' ``commercial'' version.  Anyone who has
any of the current copies can keep using it legally, and keep giving
copies away.  Read the docs that come with the code :-)

Buying something gives no rights over a version that existed before.
There was a big debate about this vis-a-vis Ghostscript, which might
go commercial (:-() later -- the versions released before that will 
still be covered by the GPL.

Don't try to persuade people using PCroute that they have to pay you 
money -- they don't!  They only have to keep using the current (non-
commercial) versions.

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