Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/11/27/22:37:23
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>If you are willing to restrict your users to only people who have
>LFB-capable drivers, you can do that. It certainly makes the coding
>much easier, and most people these days do have VBE 2.0 or 3.0
>support, so this really just comes down to whether you are bothered
>about also supporting the older machines that won't have this
>support.
Okidoki.
>> But hey, can I redistribute my soft with SciTech's Univbe without any
>> copyrights law consequences? Is it free for spreading?
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>No. UniVBE is a commercial program, and each user has to license it
>for themselves. The trial version is redistributable, but that only
>gives you LFB support for the first few weeks, so it doesn't solve
>your problem. SciTech will license you a full version that can be
>linked into your game, but I suspect this is very expensive.
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>Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel replied:
>> So IMHO you should be able to bundle the trial univbe version and
>> a program to crack it (there are sooo many on the www) with your
>> game without any copyright infringment or illegal things occuring.
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>That sounds extremely illegal to me!
4 me too, though. We all don't want to be surprised by sudden police visit,
do we? As I said earlier I'll check that out.
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> Shawn Hargreaves.
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