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- Disclaimer and Legal Stuff
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- What i will be telling you below you must understand and agree upon
- BEFORE you use any part of the FEBBS-Package. The FEBBS-Package is
- subject to the following license terms and conditions.
-
- * The FEBBS-package is supplied as is. The author disclaims all
- warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation,
- the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose.
- The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or
- consequential, which may result from the use of the FEBBS-package.
-
- * The FEBBS-package is a "shareware program" and is provided at no
- charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your
- friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of
- another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to
- provide personal computer users with quality software without high
- prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to
- develop new products.
-
- * The FEBBS-package, all programs, the documentation and support
- files are copyrighted 1991 by Patrik Sjöberg. All rights are
- reserved. You may copy this package for backup purposes. You may
- also copy and share unmodified copies of the whole package,
- providing that the copyright notice is reproduced and included on
- all copies.
-
- * You may not sell the product for a fee and/or distribute the
- product along with other products without written permission, nor
- may you modify or remove the Copyright Notices from the programs or
- the documentation files. User clubs, if they are NOT commercial,
- are allowed to ask a small amount of money for distribution and
- storage when they want to share this package amongst their members.
-
- * It is forbidden to modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer,
- decompile and/or disassemble the software in the FEBBS-package.
- Patching the medium at places that carry the software is seen as a
- program change and is also forbidden.
-
- * Non-commercial users can get a licence for the usage up to this
- release of the FEBBS-package for a small amount of money. Previous
- registered users will receive a big reduction to upgrade to the newer
- versions.
-
- * Commercial usage of FEBBS will cost somewhat more. Also, a so
- called 'closed' Bulletin Board System (a system where the user must
- pay direct to the SysOp to get full access) has to pay more than a
- Non-commercial user. Usage of the Febbs-Package on a BBS with 3
- (three) lines or more is considered as 'closed bbs' usage also.
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- The different licenses.
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- There are several ways of registrating the Febbs-package. It is
- all depending on the environment where Febbs will be running.
- Read the disclaimer above before you decide what type of registration
- that suits your environment.
-
-
- NON-Commercial registration :
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- Regarding the time and effort i have put into this product, the
- NON-commercial registration is simple and rather cheap.
-
- Payment of the registration fee, entitles you to:
-
- - The license for running ONE copy of the Febbs-package on any
- computer in a NON-commercial environment. Allthough you must
- treat the Febbs-Package like a book. That is, it can't be run
- on more than one CPU at a time.
-
- - A Serial number that makes your Copy of Febbs licensed to You.
- This serial number can be used on subsequent releases for at
- least a year, Any copy can be used, also thoose obtained from
- Shareware sources like a BBS.
-
- - The license for NON-commercial usage can not be used in any other
- environment than the NON-commercial environment itself. Upgrading
- to a commercial license or to a license for a closed BBS can be
- done by paying the difference in price between the current license
- and the new license;
-
- The license does NOT include any update service as described later
- nor does it include the 90 days support service.
-
- The price for a NON-commercial license is SEK 170:-
-
-
- Closed BBS registration:
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- When you use the Febbs-Package on a it on a so called 'closed' BBS you
- must pay for a closed BBS license.
-
- The definition of a closed BBS is a BBS where the users must pay to the
- Sysop to get full access. Also a BBS with three (3) or more lines must
- pay a closed BBS License.
-
- Payment of the registration fee, entitles you to:
-
- - The license for running ONE copy of the Febbs-package on any
- computer in a closed BBS environment. Allthough you must
- treat the Febbs-Package like a book. That is, it can't be run
- on more than one CPU at a time.
-
- - A Serial number that makes your Copy of Febbs licensed to You.
- This serial number can be used on subsequent releases for at
- least a year, Any copy can be used, also thoose obtained from
- Shareware sources like a BBS.
-
- - The license for closed BBS usage can not be used in any other
- environment than the closed BBS environment itself. Upgrading
- to a commercial license can be done by paying the difference
- in price between the current license and the new license;
-
- The license does NOT include any update service as described later
- nor does it include the 90 days support contract.
-
- The license does NOT include any update service as described later
- nor does it include the 90 days support service.
-
- The price for a closed BBS license is SEK 350:-
-
-
- Commercial registration:
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- When you use the Febbs-Package in a commercial environment you must pay
- for commercial license use Febbs. Any company registrating Febbs is
- regarded as a commercial. It doesn't matter if the company isn't
- making any money from the usage. It is still being run from an
- commercial environment.
-
- Payment of the registration fee, entitles you to:
-
- - The license for running ONE copy of the Febbs-package on any
- computer in a commercial environment. Allthough you must
- treat the Febbs-Package like a book. That is, it can't be run
- on more than one CPU at a time.
-
- - A Serial number that makes your Copy of Febbs licensed to Your
- company or You if you wish. This serial number can be used on
- subsequent releases for at least a year, Any copy can be used,
- also thoose obtained from Shareware sources like a BBS.
-
- - The license for commercial usage can be used in any other
- environment than the closed BBS environment. As long as the
- above is regarded and Febbs is used like a book.
-
- The license does NOT include any update service as described later
- nor does it include the 90 days support contract.
-
- The license is NOT a Site license. Contact the Author for information
- if you wish to enter a site license.
-
- The price for a commercial license is SEK 650:-
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- Method of payment.
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-
- There are several ways of transfering the license fee to me.
- Common for all of them is that they should be made payable
- to Patrik Sjöberg.
-
- - By postal money order or international money order. Normal cheques
- will cost me extra money to cash, so add SEK 20:- for transfer
- if you use a cheque. The real rate for transfering a Foreign check
- is SEK 50 :- so i am only charging you some of the amount for
- this. The conversion charge only applies to Non-Swedish cheques.
-
- - By Postal Giro.
- My Postal Giro account in Stockholm is 414 24 67 - 2.
- The Postal Giro is also known as PostGiro, Postcheckkonto,
- Compte Chèques postaux, PostRekening, Girobank Account all
- depending on the country you live in.
-
- - Sending money directly.
-
- At this point i can Not accept credit cards. I am currently in
- contact with my bank to try to solve this problem
-
- All prices are given in Swedish Krones. If you feel unsure what the
- current exchange rate is talk with your bank. They will be more than
- happy to help you out.
-
-
- My adress is : Patrik Sjöberg
- Sörbygatan 69B
- S-802 55 GEFLE
- Sweden.
-
- Please note that all Checks and MoneyOrders must be in Swedish
- Currency otherwise i will have to pay up to 30% of the
- Non-commercial license just to be able to cash it. I may even
- be forced to return your payment and ask you to resend it in
- proper currency.
-
- I think that if you can afford a BBS, a Computer, a modem
- and probably EchoMail, then you also can afford to pay the
- software that you use to maintain your BBS.
-
- I know that it shouldn't be to hard to crack the few things
- that appear in the unregistered version but thats not the point.
- The program still works. It is *Not* Crippled in any other way!
- I don't believe that a program can be made full-proof to hackers,
- and such, I don't find it usefull to create difficult algorithms.
- Many people know by now that when people don't register, the
- program will die, sooner or later. So if you wish to see future
- enhancemants of Febbs ( and my other programs ) then Please Register.
-
- Thank You for Your support.
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- Registration Points in the USA.
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- I have an OFFICIAL USA Registration point for FEBBS.
-
- The registration point will return your key to you via NetMail on the
- day that your check is received. Please make your checks out to
- Charles Merryman.
-
- FEBBS Registration
- c/o Charlie Merryman
- 2927 Whistler Lane
- Augusta, GA 30906-3339
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- US Dollars ONLY!
-
- The price is the same as the ones mentioned above. You use the same
- registration forms when you registrate via the USA registration point.
-
- Before registrating contact Charlie Merryman at 1:360/5, or the adress
- above, and he will let you know what it will cost you at the current
- exchange rates.
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- Upgrades
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- If you have registered a version prior to this one with a postcard
- then you may order an upgrade. Contact me to work this out.
-
- If you have registered any other way and recieved youre license
- number then no additional fees are necesary.
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- New versions
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- How much I still would like to send you all an upgrade for free I
- can't do that. My phonebills wouldn't stand it. So if you would
- like an upgrade of FEBBS when it sees the light of day you will have
- to enter the update service. International users who use Febbs will
- benefit most of this feature. Paying the fee for update service,
- entitles you to:
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- - Receiving every new release for the period of one year or 10
- releases (which ever comes first) on diskette media by
- first-class Airmail.
-
- - The diskettes are first-class (no no-name or white diskettes) and
- will contain a special diskette label;
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- The disk(s) will be mailed the same day as the new version is released.
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- Support
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- The Febbs-Package has full support from its Author.
- New versions are allways under development. And the Author is
- allways open to the user input. So if you feel that something
- is missing or that something is "backwards" let me know and
- i'll have a look at it and maybe in some future version you'll
- find it implemented.
-
- As a registered user you are entitled to :
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- - Free support.
-
- - This support consists of answering questions and fixing any program
- errors the user submits to Author in person. Only program errors
- that can be reproduced and that interfere with the intended use of
- the program as outlined in the documentation will be fixed. The
- author can ask you to give some special data to correct the problem
- and can ask you to check if you own a valid copy of the Febbs-package.
-
- - The author may choose not to fix any problem that is related to
- hardware and/or software configurations that causes one or more
- of the programs in the Febbs-package not to run correctly. If the
- Author chooses to NOT correct such a problem you are NOT entitled
- to a refund of the license money.
-
- Unregistered users will only reciece support if i have the time.
- I do NOT guarente that non-registered users will get any response from
- the Author.
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