[comp.misc] Run Time license question

ghose@tdd.sj.nec.com (Anjan Ghose) (05/31/91)

I have a software product application in mind which I can develop using C or
DBase/Clipper/Foxpro. If I sell multiple copies of this product, do I have to
pay royalty fees (for using Microsoft or Clipper compiler) for each copy sold ?
Are my customers required to purchase the platform(Microsoft/Clipper) in order
to legally use the product ? Can someone direct me to a good source on these
legal issues ? I am a software business novice.                          

Anjan

campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) (05/31/91)

In article <1991May31.000416.14993@sj.nec.com> ghose@tdd.sj.nec.com (Anjan Ghose) writes:
-I have a software product application in mind which I can develop using C or
-DBase/Clipper/Foxpro. If I sell multiple copies of this product, do I have to
-pay royalty fees (for using Microsoft or Clipper compiler) for each copy sold ?
-Are my customers required to purchase the platform(Microsoft/Clipper) in order
-to legally use the product ? Can someone direct me to a good source on these
-legal issues ? I am a software business novice.                          

Why don't you ask the vendors of these packages?
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Larry Campbell             The Boston Software Works, Inc., 120 Fulton Street
campbell@redsox.bsw.com    Boston, Massachusetts 02109 (USA)