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Article: 12469 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!fdc
From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: ftp scripting
Date: 22 May 2001 14:57:55 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <3B0A3242.4B69CB9E@CCAgroup.co.uk>,
Chris Sharman <Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk> wrote:
: Frank da Cruz wrote:
: > Chris Sharman <Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk> wrote:
: > : The licence forbids commercial non-internal use
: > : too, without providing a pointer to a (presumably chargeable) commercial
: > : licence.
: >
: > Yes, if you want to furnish Kermit software to customers or clients, you
: > need to license it. That's not a bad thing. You get money from your
: > customers and clients, we get money from you. It's like the food chain.
: > We all have to eat.
:
: We're not a software supplier. I just want to exchange data with a
: parcel courier we use. "Internal use" is unclear: does it mean I can use
: kermit for anything I want, or just for moving data internally ? I don't
: intend supplying kermit to them or anyone else. In any case, I wasn't
: griping about the price, just that I wasn't clear on what the price was
: (and I'm still not).
:
If two consenting adults have copies of Kermit, of course they can use to
exchange files with each other :-) Licensing is not required to USE the
software, only when it is to be treated as a product or commodity in a
commercial setting -- i.e. when it is sold as a commercial product or
included in or with a commercial product, or furnished to a customer or
client as part of a commercial service, e.g. by a consultant or contractor.
In your case, since you are not supplying the software to anyone, you would
not need to license it. I hope this is clear from:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/commercial.html
and from the C-Kermit license itself:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/f/COPYING.TXT
- Frank