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- From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
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- Subject: Re: Summary: I'm faint! I just saw the price for MPW!
- Message-ID: <ksand-221292163512@wintermute.apple.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:39:58 GMT
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- In article <lsr-221292105437@lsr.taligent.com>, lsr@taligent.com (Larry
- Rosenstein) wrote:
- > In article <1992Dec22.070755.13175@netcom.com>, nagle@netcom.com (John
- > Nagle) wrote:
- > > and in order to protect them you may not decompile, reverse engineer,
- > > disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Software to a human-perceivable form.
- >
- > I don't have any CDs around to see what the situation is today. I do know
- > that MacApp is not on the Developer CD. And the versions of the MacApp
- > license that I've seen doesn't place any of those restrictions.
-
- > Also, all the Tech Notes and DTS Sample Code I've seen has carried an
- > explict statement that you can use this and distribute it, provided you do
- > not sell it.
-
- Here's the vital part concerning restrictions of Dev. CD use, in
- the TeachText file up in the left corner:
- 2. RESTRICTIONS. The Software and Materials contain copyrighted material,
- trade secrets and other proprietary material and in order to protect them
- you may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce
- the Software and Materials to a human-perceivable form. You may not
- modify, rent, lease, loan, distribute or create derivative works based upon
- the Software and Materials in whole or in part. You may make only as many
- copies of the Software and Materials as are reasonably necessary to
- effectuate the permitted uses of the Software and Materials as stated in
- Section 1. However, with one exception, you may use, copy, modify and
- incorporate into your own programs the Software and Materials found in the
- develop folder within the Periodicals folder, provided you reproduce on
- each copy the Apple copyright notice and any other proprietary legends that
- were on the original copy of the Software. The exception to this is the
- Software and Materials for The NetWork Project article in Issue 11 of
- develop, which are copyright 1989-1992 The NetWork Project, StatLab
- Heidelberg and are for personal, noncommercial use only.
-
- As Larry stated, you could use, copy, modify and incorporate into
- your application sample code from the develop folder. I agree that the
- statement does not clearly state that the snippets also belong to this
- category, but this is the case as well. So I will talk with the people
- downstairs making sure that this is also included to the license in
- future.
-
- As for MacApp, as I know we don't place any restrictions on people
- extending
- the framework, but we want to control who is porting over the whole
- framework to another platform, and we could make a deal concerning this
- as well, so it's not totally verboten.
-
- All in all, I do think we are overstating the issue, really. If someone
- really believes that we are sending out lawyers if they copy in code
- from DTS.Lib, then I'm afraid we live in a scary society.
-
- Kent
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