lloeb@spock.UUCP (Lawrence Loeb) (06/25/86)
=================================== =================================== I found this message in mod.mac today: >Date: Tue, 10 Jun 86 10:17:44 EDT >From: ms1g@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Steven Sherman) >Subject: Royalities on locally produced Softstrips > >At Dartmouth, we got a softstrip reader and strip producer. I agree that >the reader seemed to work fine but the licensing materials that came with >the strip producing software essentially said that Cauzin has to be paid >royalities on anything you distribute that was printed by their program. We >had hoped to use this medium as a way to cheaply distribute code, but I >can't see any great advantage in paying royalities to the current scheme of >posting to the networks or exchanging disks. We didn't think they would do >this -- after all, the reader has value only if there is a large software >base to read. But I guess they think they can get as much as possible this >way. Anyone still using First Byte's Smoothtalker in their application? It's misinformed. Cauzin has a license policy for COMMERCIAL distribution of SoftStrips. The licensing fee seems to be about the same as Apple charges to distribute Finder/System. Not a whole lot. But for NON-COMMERCIAL use (like the ones you or me would do with the strip-generating program) there are NO fees. They positively ENCOURAGE people to share software via SoftStrips. They WONT EVER charge people who use SS's this way. EVER. Is that clear? Good, I'm glad. --Larry Loeb BIX:lloeb Usenet:..decvax!yale!spock!lloeb Delphi: ELEL CI$ (72466,1465) _InitCookie [picture of a man in swimtrunks, sunglasses, and a General's cap (with a big red star on it) sitting next to the ocean in a beach chair sipping a drink with an umbrella on it] Caption: Soviet military beachhead in Nicaragua