Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!utrcu1!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer From: klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: c.b.a posting: CLIB 3.66 - NOT PD ! Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 08:45:03 GMT References: <6789@acorn.co.uk> Sender: news@utrcu1.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: University of Twente, BSC-El Lines: 43 In <6789@acorn.co.uk> aglover@acorn.co.uk (Alan Glover) writes: >I have just posted a package containing CLIB 3.66 to comp.binaries.acorn. This is a shared C library -- something you can only use if you link it with other software. Let now come to the license were this message is about: >2. Licence >Acorn grants you a personal non-transferable non-exclusive licence (or sub-licence), as follows: >(1) You may copy the Software for use, and back-up purposes to support its > use, on one stand-alone Acorn computer system. What is stand-alone? I don't want to take away my ethernet (or econet, if i had it) to use a software update! >(3) You may not: > (iii) incorporate any part of the Software into other programs > developed or used by you. This one is really nice. I get a library, but am not allowed to link it with other software! So i just received garbage! >.... Any enquiries about this should be addressed to our Legal department. Please, please give me their address! I really don't understand their policy. (But i suspect they don't understand what they license... ) >More good news - MsgTrans 0.08 will be coming soon! What is it??? Again some unusable-licensed bandwidth-consuming piece of this garbage? Klamer (Not too pleased by such postings!) -- Klamer Schutte Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl {backbone}!mcsun!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer