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- Licensing MIDAS Sound System for commercial purposes
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- Even though you are not allowed to use this version of MIDAS Sound
- System for commercial programs, commercial licenses are also available.
- Contact us for more information. There is no set price for MIDAS, but
- for most purposes the price would be 500USD per-product, assuming that
- we don't have to do very much extra work for you. Other licensing
- methods, like unlimited license for a one-time fee, are also available.
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- We know that, in general, the license is much too strict for any
- practical purposes. It is, however, the only way we can be sure that
- MIDAS will not be used for commercial programs. We have already had
- problems with Jarno's Amiga player being illegally used for commercial
- programs by companies like _TEAM 17_. They did not even bother telling
- him what they are doing, much less correctly licensing his Player. The
- license in his Player was probably not restrictive enough.
-
- Even with this license, we are still taking a risk when making MIDAS
- Sound System available to the public. This public release is mostly
- aimed at demo programmers, with the hope that we do not have to see any
- more GUS-only demos with even no support for no-sound. We hope that
- MIDAS will be useful to all software developers, especially as its
- source code is available.
-
- If, however, the license is violated, we will have to stop releasing
- any more public versions of MIDAS. We can still make it available for
- non-commercial usage, but as any other method of distribution would
- mean expenses for us, we could no longer offer MIDAS Sound System for
- free. We do not want to charge money for non-commercial usage, and so
- we hope that we do not have to go into this.
-
- The moral of the story is this: By illegally using MIDAS Sound System
- in a commercial product, you not only cause legal problems for
- yourself, but make it impossible for hundreds or even thousands of
- other programmers to get free versions of MIDAS for their personal
- usage. This way you are guaranteed to get massive amounts of new
- enemies, which surely will not make your product more successful...
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