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|Licence

In the following, all filenames referred to should be construed as referring
equally to the variant names by which they are known in the various
environments.

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\s1|Overview

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\s2|Handling fees

I charge a handling fee (as at 1991 5 pounds within the UK, 10$ outside) to
provide media, send out programs or receive alleged bug reports. This handling
fee is reduced by 30% if media are provided, return postage/shipping is
provided, and, in the case of outside the UK, payment is made in such a way
that I do not have to pay bank charges to collect it. In the event of bug
reports that I find genuine, adequate, and not due to misunderstanding, an
additional 70% is waived. In the event that a 100% rebate applies, I shall not
present your payment for collection. Of course, if you are reporting bugs but
do not require a new version, or are contributing a configuration file, there
is no handling fee.

Please remember that it may be the case that there may well be a source for the
Jolly Good Programs closer to you.

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\s2|Public domain

JGPCopy, JGQuery and its ilk have been put in the public domain, and both they
and their source may be freely passed around. They are also available from me
subject to normal handling charges. NB. They will usually be put on any disk I
send out subject to the availability of space.

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\s2|Free Licence

I retain copyright in JGSharEd and JGSharePr and their documentation, but grant
a free licence for their use and distribution subject to the conditions
detailed below. However, there are certain uses of JGSharePr for the production
of documentation as JGDoc for which licence fees are charged, as detailed
below. Note that the use of JGSharePr as JGDoc to READ documentation is not
subject to any fees whatsoever.

The !jgpcopy application is freely licenced to users subject to the conditions
detailed in JGPCopyDoc/Info.

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\s2|Shareware Licences

Licences for the use of JGEd and JGPrint (with its auxiliaries) are available
from me on payment of appropriate fees. As at 3/1992 these are, for individuals,
£45 for JGEd and £45 for JGPrint etc; a licence for the pair is £80. An
individual licence covers use by members of a normal size household, and use by
a group at a place of work in which the licencee has an active involvement. It
is thought that such a group would usually be 2-4 people and would never exceed
8 people. For site licences see below.

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\s2|Implicit Licences

The use, or examination of the documentation, of any of these programs is deemed
to constitute the acceptance of an appropriate licence and the acceptance of the
obligations detailed below.

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\s2|Hackers' Licences and Site Licences

These are detailed below

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\s1|JGDoc Use fees

Obtaining any explicit or implicit licence to JGSharePr or JGPrint involves the
acknowledgement by the licencee of certain conditions, in particular of her
potential obligation to pay JGDoc use fees for any product that is distributed
with JGDoc documentation, or whose documentation is developed with the aid of
JGSharePr or JGPrint.

It is in no way my intention that the READER of JGDoc documentation should be
liable for any fees, nor that JGDoc documentation intended solely for personal
or family use, or used during product development by a working group should
attract any licensing fees.

There are two alternative bases on which licence fees may be computed, and it
is left to the discretion of the documenter as to which basis he shall use. I
first describe them on the assumption that the product documented is a
general\-purpose software system like JGPrint.

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|Basis I

A Copy of the product and its documentation shall be sent to me with a free
licence subject to your normal conditions for my full use of the product. On
'sale' of your 100th. copy you pay me as full and final fee the full normal
end\-user charge for your product.

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|Basis II

On 'sale' of your 15th. copy, you pay me as interim fee the full normal
end\-user charge made for your product; on 'sale' of your 150th. copy you pay
me as second and final fee your full normal end\-user charge. Additionally I
should appreciate, but do not exact, some knowledge of the nature of your
product.

Obviously, basis I would be the more appropriate to general purpose systems
which I might well find useful, basis II for those intended for vertical
markets, or in\-house products which are not on public sale.

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\s2|Variations

I have attempted to produce a flexible basis for charges, and documenters will,
I trust, find this a suitable basis to estimate the fees due. I now list
certain special cases which are by no means exhaustive, but might prove helpful
if your product does not immediately fit in to the basis above.

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\s3|Public domain and Freeware

Basis I necessarily applies. I am pleased to help you with your contribution to
the software community.

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\s3|Hardware Component

If you are using Basis I, and a part of your product is hardware, you may
proceed as follows: suppose the input cost of the hardware is x% of your
end\-user charge. You may, if you wish, send documentation without hardware
initially. I shall then inform you as to whether or not I want the hardware. If
so, it is due by your xth. sale at latest. If not, you should send me x% of
your end\-user price by your xth. sale.

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\s3|In-house Documents

These will, I assume, be basis II. There are two problems: there is no end\-user
product price; there is, de facto, a limited market. For the first, consider
either the cost of software for a job of similar complexity, or the cost of
time and materials applied to generating the documented job divided by its
potential number of users. For the second, I should expect to receive one
payment only from a firm with less than 250 employees, two otherwise, the
second only when a good number or a good proportion of potential users have
received the documentation.

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\s3|Security documents

This example is for GCHQ, NSF, DST etc.

I am always glad to receive anonymous fees. Senders of such fees should make it
clear whether or not the payment has been reported to the Inland Revenue.

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\s1|Licencees's Obligations

Obtaining any explicit or implicit licence to JGSharePr or JGPrint also
involves the acknowledgement by the licencee of the following conditions:-

1] To further the distribution of JGSharePrint and JGSharEd as far as she
regards it as desirable and practicable. Note that all files on the shareware
disk should be passed on, and that any changes to their contents should not
involve any deletion of characters. (.if 0 ..... .fi can be used.) Any additions
should acknowledge their source.

2] To further the distribution of any configuration files that have been
constructed for output to new printers or DTP systems. (I shall be glad to see
a copy, and may, if allowed, add them to further distributions.)

3] To take all reasonable care to ensure that non\-shareware versions of JG
programs are only used within the terms of this licence.

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\s1|Licensor's Obligations

Turing (The halting problem for automata, 1936) has shown that there is no way
to prove that a program is bug-free. Moreover, JG programs are continuously
developing, and some aspects may well have been less exercised than others.

I cannot therefore warrent that JG programs will act as documented, nor can I
be liable for any consequences of using them. I do however assure potential
users that I have sought (with thimbles and care) to produce reliable and
well\-exercised programs. It is my policy to develop these programs in response
to bug reports, and user suggestions to increase their usefulness.

On receipt of an 'alleged\-bug' report  and handling fee, I undertake to look
into the problem. If you have misunderstood, I shall send you an elaborative
clarification. If it is a genuine bug, I shall endeavour either to correct it
and send you the corrected version or send you a bug\-fix as soon as I can look
at the problem. Note that it may well be due to a problem in the underlying
system or unfixable for other good reasons. If you give me your phone number,
and are willing to accept reverse charge (collect) calls, it may be helpful for
me to phone you. I may also need access to hardware that you have and I don't,
which must, of course, be subject to individual negotiation.

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\s1|Hacker's Licence

JGSharePr and JGSharED are protected from intrusion by sufficient means, and,
in my view, beating them is more trouble than paying for a licence. For those,
however, to whom such things are a challenge, and who de-protect these
versions, a complimentary Hacker's Licence should be obtained. Before
specifying the rules of the game, pray accept my congratulations.

1] Please send me a description of how you cracked it.

2] Please send me your suggestions for more ingenious protection.

3] I should be grateful for any software that you can let me have that you
think may interest me.

4] I shall send you in return, the most uptodate version available.

Please accept the obligation not to publicise the means whereby you managed to
de-protect the program.

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\s1|Site Licences

These are available for a charge that increases logarithmically with the number
of people to whom they apply; educational site licences are also available.