PEPRBV@cfaamp.bitnet (07/22/87)
From the Computer Innovations C86 license agreement: User Programs do not have to include our Copyright notices ... and are not subject to any usage restriction. However, the Computer Innovations C86PLUS license agreement requires that you put their copyright in your program's opening screen, but forbids you to use their name to market your product, i.e., don't mention them in your ads. Now, what about a shareware program where the marketing is the opening screen of the program? This both must and must not have CI's copyright notice.
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (07/22/87)
In article <8387@brl-adm.ARPA> PEPRBV@cfaamp.bitnet writes: >Now, what about a shareware program where the marketing is the >opening screen of the program? This both must and must not have >CI's copyright notice. I suppose that contradiction proves that you're not allowed to distribute such software. You really agreed to those terms?? Some applications really do need total control of all I/O activity that occurs when they run, and spurious output (for example, printing compiler vendor copyright notices) will break them. I personally am so irked at ANY run-time behavior that I did not put in my code that I will not buy or use such compiler implementations, and I urge you to adopt the same policy (and to let the vendors hear about it). I think Ken & Dennis would have croaked anybody who tried to make UNIX utilities print out identifying messages etc.