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From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PD Boot Disks
Message-ID: <312@mcdsun.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 11:39:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcdsun.312
Posted: Mon May 18 11:39:36 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 04:44:36 EDT
References: <504@myrias.UUCP> <1868@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1541@cadovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division
Lines: 39
Keywords: Draco compiler shareware includes

In article <1541@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>In article <1868@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
>>The files may only be distributed by an individual or company with a
>>Workbench License.  The licensee must be the sole distributor and must
>>adhere to the rules of the license regarding copyright notices, disclaimers,
>>etc.  This makes public redistribution impossible under the contract.

>If someone decided to contribute $100 to Fred Fish for the 
>purpose of getting a workbench license, can we all then just give Fred 
>bootable disks and have him distribute them all for us?

This would certainly allow *ME* to distribute bootable disks, but would
defeat a major purpose of the library, that of making it freely 
redistributable by anyone ("freely" here refering to tolerable legal
restrictions, if any, as opposed to monetary exchange).  Given such a
hypothetical situation, individuals or Amiga dealers could probably allow
copying of the disks (after all, distributers and dealers don't have to
obtain Workbench Licenses to *sell* (or give away at a loss if they are so
inclined) commercial products that are distributed by the producer
under a Workbench License.  Of course, I have never seen the text of
such a license so this is just supposition...

>>   Publicly redistributable software can be distributed with an installation
>>script designed to strip a user's copy of Workbench and install itself
>>onto that copy of Workbench.

Given that the focus of my library has always been the experienced user,
this is my prefered solution.  You may have noticed on some of my later
disks that I've started making them more "Workbench friendly" where
this is reasonable and does not require me rewriting the code to make
it work under Workbench.

-Fred


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