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- From: chuck@gte.com (Chuck Hoffman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Licensing and the rights of programming environments...
- Message-ID: <chuck-040193111802@choffman.gte.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 16:21:45 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.181136.18003@cc.umontreal.ca> <C08y6r.MDq@world.std.com>
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- In article <C08y6r.MDq@world.std.com>, siegel@world.std.com (Rich Siegel)
- wrote:
- >
- > In article <1993Jan2.181136.18003@cc.umontreal.ca> parej@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Pare Jerome) writes:
- > >Hi to all of you and a happy new year!
- > >
- > >I have a question regarding the rights you have when programming in an
- > >environment (Think C and Pascal, MPW, and the others...):
- > >Can you commercially program "right out the box" and sell your programs
- > >commercially or do you need to get extra licensing to distribute your
- > >products (from Think, Apple, and other makers...)?
- >
- > With THINK C and THINK Pascal, the software license gives you permission
- > to use the libraries in your programs without additional licensing. This
- > includes programs that use the THINK Class Library.
-
- The permission in the license is under the condition that you declare your
- own copyright in a manner sufficient to protect your own work. That is,
- you can't just use the Symantec stuff, then publish it without your own
- copyright protection.
-
- If you have any significant interest, or exposure, you should consult an
- attorney who has experience in the software copyright field, and in your
- case certainly one familiar with both U.S. and Canadian law.
-
- Chuck Hoffman
- chuck@gte.com
- GTE Laboratories, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
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