Message-ID: <010301c0425f$94f6c320$11fea8c0@dell>
From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: "Delorie List" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
References: <20001030 DOT 010348 DOT -4123357 DOT 0 DOT domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Subject: Re: A little history
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:52:21 -0000
Organization: Jemmett Glover Software Development
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> You are not authorized to do any
> modifications to the software or change the package in any way, by adding
> to or deleting from what came in the box. (You can only do that if you
> wrote the software or they sell you the copyright, which they are not
> stupid enough to do.)
> You can't copy and give away or sell any disks nor
> any documentation that you recieved with the package and it is serialized
> so they will always know who it is registered to.
How things have changed since the good old days of DRI's licenses...  My
licenses for GEM/2 and DOS Plus say 'you may use the SOFTWARE on one
computer, and make up to three (3) backup copies in human or
machine-readable form.  You may merge the SOFTWARE into any other program,
and this counts as use of the original SOFTWARE.  You may transfer the
SOFTWARE to another party, provided the other party agrees to be bound by
the terms of this LICENSE, and that you destroy all other copies of the
SOFTWARE in original or merged form.' or words to that effect.  The IBM
licenses  have for Writing Assistant and DisplayWrite Assistant say the same
thing - you can give it to someone else, as long as you give them all of it
and keep none of it, and you can modify the software as you want but it's
still covered by their license.

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)