17 Legal Stuff

SimpleWave © 1994-1995 René G.A. Ros.
All rights reserved. NOT in public domain.

Portions © 1993 Symantec Corporation.
Portions © 1995 Apple Computer Inc.

Warranty & Distribution

No charge may be levied for this program, nor may it be included as part of any package sold for profit without express authorization from the author. It may be distributed freely via BBS's and other electronic data services that do not explicitly charge for file downloads, that is, do not charge a per file rate as opposed to a per hour rate. This includes, but is not limited to, services such as Compuserve, America Online, Genie, and the public access InterNet sites such as sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Further, no service or distributor may attach additional restrictions to this program or to its distribution. This software must be distributed unmodified, and complete with documentation.
Permission for commercial distribution is granted to:
     Arizona Macintosh Users Group (BBS in a box CD-ROM)
     Club Macintosh de Quebec
     CP Shareware
     IDG Communications Nederland (MacWorld CD-ROM)
     Pacific HiTech, Inc. (Info-Mac CD-ROM, Umich CD-ROM)
     Quantum Leap Technologies, Inc. (The Right Stuffed CD-ROM)

This software is provided “as-is” without warranty of any kind, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Although all reasonable efforts have been made to remove, or document all bugs, the author does not warrant, guarantee, or make any representations regarding the use, or the results of the use, of the software or accompanying instructions in terms of correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. The entire risk as to the results and performance of the software is assumed by you. If the software or instructions are defective, you, and not the author, assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction. The author shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of your use or inability to use this product, even if the author has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

This software uses undocumented features of the Macintosh Operating System software. Specifically, SimpleWave uses information reserved to the Finder, but because of its nature this is essential for the operation of SimpleWave. As far as the author knows, none of these undocumented features will cause fatal errors when the operating system changes.

Apple, AppleShare and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
LikeWise, ResEdit, Finder © Apple Computer Inc.
MacPrefect is a trademark of and © 1991-1994 Hi Resolution Ltd.
Style and AutoViewer © 1993-1994, Merzwaren (Marco Piovanelli)

Registration

You may use this copy freely for a period of 30 days and if you decide to keep it you need to send by mail AT LEAST US$ 150 IN CASH to the address (together with the form in the next chapter) at the end of this document. Please add US$ 20 when using a check to cover the bank expenses.
If you want to receive the latest version and documentation on disk, please mention this. If you don't have an email address I will then send you a disk without any additional charges by surface mail. Otherwise I will email you a compressed DiskImage file of this disk.

For any Dutch user:
Nederlandse gebruikers kunnen het bedrag in Nederlandse Guldens (omrekenen aan de hand van koers USD-NLG) overmaken op Postbank 4762669 t.n.v. R.G.A. Ros o.v.v. SimpleWave.

Registered users will be advised of updates (via email only), and gain preferential treatment when dealing with bugs reports and suggestions, and will additionally provide an incentive for me to continue development.
You are not allowed to distributed registered copies of SimpleWave or the passwords given to registered users. You are only allowed to distribute the archive as it is distributed by the author.

For registration print the registration form in the next chapter and send it by mail or email to the author, whose address is listed below.

When your registration has been processed you will receive a receipt by normal mail. You will also receive two passwords. One password allows you to decompress the “Registered Users Only.sea” archive of the version you registered for. The second password is for the next minor or major upgrade. When both passwords are no longer usable you have received one upgrade and the next upgrade requires an additional payment. Further instructions will be made available when such a situation occurs. Releases which only fix bugs and other minor problems will not require an additional payment.

Author's Address

The author of SimpleWave can be contacted at the following addresses:

René G.A. Ros D.C. van Krimpenstraat 3
1067 SG  Amsterdam-Geuzenveld
The Netherlands, Europe

email addresses:

INTERNET:
rgaros@bio.vu.nl (prefered)
rener@uniface.nl
rgaros@nikhefk.nikhef.nl
rgaros@htsa.hva.nl
rgaros@dds.nl

or the WWW home page:
http://www.bio.vu.nl/home/rgaros/

COMPUSERVE:
>INTERNET: rgaros@bio.vu.nl
100112,1363

(The bio.vu.nl address is used almost daily, the COMPUSERVE address only a few times a month).