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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacTCP site license
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Date: 12 Feb 90 18:08:35 GMT
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In article <1990Feb10.025432.25925@cs.UAlberta.CA> simon@alberta.uucp 
(Simon Tortike) writes:
> have to buy MacTCP through the official channels, or can I use the MacTCP
> which came with another product?  Is MacTCP distributed more or less in 
the
> manner of Apple's system software, i.e., users do not pay for a licence 

I believe that MacTCP works like other Apple system software.  You need a 
license from Apple to distribute it.  So companies shipping products have to 
license MacTCP if they want to include it on their disk.  Once a user has 
MacTCP, however, then s/he can use it with any program.

MacTCP is a bit different in that it is not shipped with every machine,
so you can't write a PD program that uses it and assume everyone will have
it.  People can buy MacTCP from APDA (and get the programming
documentation), or organizations can get site licenses.

I don't think the APDA product includes a license to distribute MacTCP.
For more info, contact Apple's software licensing department.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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