mah@dec1.wu-wien.ac.at (Michael Haberler) (04/10/91)
I heard that PCroute (written by Vance Morrison) is now owned by LANport, a company in California. We use some copies of PCroute at this University. Vance has not yet answered my mail regarding the legal status of PCroute. I would have have appreciated a notice to this newsgroup, or mail to those people running PCroute. Could someone shed more light on this situation? - michael
amc@cup.portal.com (Alan Michael Crawley) (04/14/91)
About PCroute. I was the one responsible for negotiating the PCroute deal with Northwest University. I was Lanport's President at the time and am currently a Director charged with major contract negotiations. I'm the marketeer- businessman-deal maker of the outfit. All worldwide rights to PCroute are the property of Lanport Inc. of Pleasanton CA. The company is enhancing PCroute to make it a commercial product. We are interested in partner-ing with folks who have enhancments already. Mail me. Existing users of PCroute are encouraged to register with Lanport for upgrade info and support. There will be no licensing fee for the freeware versions of PCroute. Only subsequent versions who's copywright reads "1991 Lanport Inc." would be subject to a license fee. Please note that existing versions were not public domain. They were fee free copywright by Northwest University. As Lanport copywright existing versions remain fee free. We will make more announcements later see comp.dcom.lans. Thanks Alan Crawley Lanport Inc. 7041 Koll Center Parkway, #180 Pleasanton, CA 94566 (415)462-8700 FAX (415)462-4805
kath@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bill Kath) (04/15/91)
In article <41268@cup.portal.com> amc@cup.portal.com (Alan Michael Crawley) writes: >About PCroute. >I was the one responsible for negotiating the PCroute deal with Northwest >University. ... I don't know anything about the legal status of PCRoute, but I do know that it came from *Northwestern* University, not `Northwest' University. PCRoute was written by Vance Morrison while he was an employee of Northwestern, specifically with ACNS, Academic Computing and Networking Services. (BTW, I just checked a second ago and PCRoute is still available via anonymous ftp from accuvax.nwu.edu, and none of the documentation has yet been modified to indicate any change in copyright.) > >We will make more announcements later see comp.dcom.lans. >Thanks >Alan Crawley >Lanport Inc. >7041 Koll Center Parkway, #180 >Pleasanton, CA 94566 >(415)462-8700 FAX (415)462-4805 P.S. I am not part of ACNS, just on the faculty; I only know enough about all of this to set the name of the place straight :) Bill Kath ---------------------- kath@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University