Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!nwd From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Shareware legal at work Message-ID: <6446@j.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 17 Feb 88 14:28:54 GMT References: <4330033@hpindda.HP.COM> Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Daniel Lawrence) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 17 Keywords: Software registration Summary: Official Disks In article <4330033@hpindda.HP.COM> hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin) writes: >Subject: use of PD and Shareware in a commercial environment > ..... >There are several shareware packages that I would register at work >next week if the author could satisfy our auditors. As it is, >I just can't use these packages at work. > I put a package which I restrict from comercial use.... and given the proper registration from orginizations like yours I would happily send along an official document sactioning it use. I don't see this as a barrier to the use of software like this... you just need to get hold of the package author. I think you will find most are happy to set you up. Daniel Lawrence (317) 742-5153 UUCP: {ihnp4!pur-ee!}j.cc.purdue.edu!nwd ARPA: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu FIDO: 1:201/2 The Programmer's Room (317) 742-5533