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From: psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul F Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: PKZIP license (FAQ?)
Keywords: PKZIP sharware etc
Message-ID: <1991May13.180456.7220@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 18:04:56 GMT
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The department where I work here at Purdue University is in the midst
of a (small) battle over "getting legal" (software-wise, that is). 
In particular, we seem to be at odds over the license for PKZIP for DOS. 
It says:

     You are free to use, copy and distribute PKZIP for noncommercial us IF:
             NO FEE IS CHARGED FOR USE, COPYING OR DISTRIBUTION.
             IT IS NOT MODIFIED IN ANY WAY.

The main questions are: Does a University count under "commercial use"?
And, what are the limits on what we can do with it? We would like to 
make it a part of a standard PC configuration that gets distributed to
all existing PCs (and placed with new ones, too). This configuration will
"cost" the receiving department, but only our already set rate to do 
software installation (ie department charge-back a.k.a. "funny money").

PKZIP would not be used in any specific application, only for personal
use on each PC. Would this sort of thing be in violation of the above 
statement?

Oh yea,
please don't flame me for posting this when should have called PKWare.
I'm not supposed to make long distance calls (no kidding), and I'm not 
*really* working on this project myself, but I thought I'd ask the net 
to see if this is a FAQ or if someone else has already called them.
Thanks!
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Paul F. Smith - ADPC - Purdue University     psmith@ecn.purdue.edu