amc@cup.portal.com (Alan Michael Crawley) (04/07/91)
If you are using Vance Morrison's code known as PCroute in a commercial or government business you may need a license. The sole worldwide owner of the code and the name PCroute is a development company in Pleasanton California called LANport Inc. They are enhancing it to make it a commercial product. Call for info, license or help. Have your contract purchasing person call.. 415-462-8700 Ask for Etienne Taylor. If you are an educational or non-profit there is no charge..but register for updates etc. I am a stockholder in LANport, but not an employee. Thanks..Alan MIchael Crawley
paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) (04/11/91)
Thus spake amc@cup.portal.com (Alan Michael Crawley): > > If you are using Vance Morrison's code known as PCroute in a commercial > or government business you may need a license. > > The sole worldwide owner of the code and the name PCroute is a development > company in Pleasanton California called LANport Inc. They are enhancing it > to make it a commercial product. If Lanport bought the code from Vance (or if Vance formed the company and decided to go commercial with PCroute), this does _not_ affect all the copies of PCroute currently in circulation. It will only affect the ``enhanced'' ``commercial'' version. Anyone who has any of the current copies can keep using it legally, and keep giving copies away. Read the docs that come with the code :-) Buying something gives no rights over a version that existed before. There was a big debate about this vis-a-vis Ghostscript, which might go commercial (:-() later -- the versions released before that will still be covered by the GPL. Don't try to persuade people using PCroute that they have to pay you money -- they don't! They only have to keep using the current (non- commercial) versions. ---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=--- Paul Nash Free Range Computer Systems cc paul@frcs.UUCP ...!uunet!m2xenix!frcs!paul
amc@cup.portal.com (Alan Michael Crawley) (04/14/91)
Lanport has no intension of attempting to charge anyone for licensing PCroute versions prior to Copyright 1991 Lanport Inc. Only enhanced versions will cost. We are interested in enhancements, by the way. Sorry for any confusion. Alan Crawley Lanport Inc.
kuyper@cside1.uucp (Kuyper Hoffman) (04/15/91)
In article <452@frcs.UUCP> paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) writes: >Don't try to persuade people using PCroute that they have to pay you >money -- they don't! They only have to keep using the current (non- >commercial) versions. Especially since some of the newer versions don't match good ole version 2.1. I had problems with the Beta Release of 2.2 when used as an IPX/TCP router. It simply doesn't work, but simply replacing the .EXE file with pktpkt2.1 (ie no change to the config file) works great. Anyone else had this? What's the latest NON-commercial release? -- | Kuyper Hoffman | Life is just a bowl of All-Bran | | kuyper@cside1.UUCP | You wake up every morning | | ....!ddsw1!olsa99!oct1!cside1!kuyper | And it's there.... | \--------------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/