Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!mattd From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: GS Installer Message-ID: <53690@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 6 Jun 91 00:36:28 GMT References: Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 33 In article taob@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Brian Tao) writes: > > I want to include the Installer with a shareware HCGS stack I'm writing. >I have the Installer script written and ready to go. Problem is, do I need >to license GS/OS just to distribute the Installer program? It comes on tthe >System Tools disk, so I assume it is part of the system software. Am I >correct in this assumption? I'd rather not pay a $50 fee for something >like shareware or freeware. > >-- >Brian T. Tao *B-) | taob@micor.ocunix.on.ca | "Though this be >2705-1510 Riverside | - or - | madness, yet there >Ottawa, ON K1G 4X5 | taob@micor.uucp | is method in 't." You are correct in the assumption. For the licensing fee of $100 (I think, I'm not sure), you get to license anything that comes on the two-disk System Software set. This is usually a good deal for developers, but it does backfire in the cases of shareware authors who want only one component of the System Software. Sorry. (BTW, the same is true for the 8-bit software -- when you license P8, you get to distribute P8 or anything else on the 8-bit system disk, including System Utilities, FastCopy, BASIC.SYSTEM and whatever else is there.) -- ============================================================================ Matt Deatherage, Developer Technical | The opinions expressed herein are Support, Apple Computer, Inc. | not those of Apple Computer, and Personal mail only, please. Thanks. | shame on you for thinking otherwise. ^^^^^^^^ Technical questions are not personal. Please post them instead. ============================================================================