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From: prw@meccts.MECC.MN.ORG (Paul Wenker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: License from Apple cont..
Message-ID: <3911@meccts.MECC.MN.ORG>
Date: 25 May 89 14:57:49 GMT
References: <8905231046.aa01203@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: prw@meccts.UUCP (Paul Wenker)
Organization: MECC Technical Services, St. Paul, MN
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In article <8905231046.aa01203@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> MSER001@ECNCDC.BITNET writes:
>Now my question is...why does only the Macintosh system software require
>a license from apple according to the APDA catalog?  Don't they like the
>II series OS software or what?  How am I to know what the truth actually is,
>when my only source of information which is directly from Apple tells me
>nothing?  I be confused again...it must be ongoing.
>
>scott hutinger   mser001@ecncdc.bitnet


Despite what the APDA catalog says (or doesn't say), you do need a
license to ship any part of the GS system disk with your product.
This was also true of DOS 3.3.  The license fee is quite reasonable.
The last time I looked, it was $50-$100 per product per year.


-Paul Wenker			UUCP: prw@mecc.mn.org
-MECC, Advanced Development	AppleLink: MECC.TECH