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- Use Of PFE In Commercial Environments
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- If you are a private individual, or a non-commercial organisation (such as
- a university, charity or school) you may make unlimited use of PFE for any
- purpose.
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- However, if you use PFE as part of your work in a commercial environment, you
- need to pay a small one-time licence fee to me. The amount is not yet finalised,
- but is likely to be on a sliding scale running from 25 pounds sterling for use
- on a single machine, up to 250 pounds sterling for use on any number of machines.
- The fee will cover use of the current test series 0.xx.xxx and the first
- release series 1.xx.xxx
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- Details of the amount of the licence payment, and of how to pay, will be
- included in the next release. As I develop PFE as a hobby, and will not permit it
- to become any form of work, I will not offer any form of support in return,
- and I will ask for a suitable company officer to sign a short agreement to make
- sure that this is clearly understood and to keep the legal situation clear.
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- Until I have finalised the details commercial organisations may make use of
- PFE; once the details are published, though, the licence requirement will apply
- to all versions, even those existing currently.
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- Software developers who may want to adapt PFE for inclusion into their own
- products are welcome to contact me for details of a source licence.
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