At 05:11 AM 11/17/97 +0000, phelix@vallnet.com wrote:

On 16 Nov 1997 22:18:39 -0600, Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org> wrote:

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From what I have read of the license it is against the license agreement to ship the libraries on a CD of shareware products for which a price is

charged.

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If I were to create a program using the libraries and upload them to Simtel or one of the other big archives, it could not be distributed on a Simtel CD-ROM that someone was charging money for.  (Ignoring the usual export issues.)

I see this as a big problem.

This, unfortunately, is a non-issue.  I just reread the license agreement and noticed the following:

Non-Commercial Distribution License.

Subject to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, PGP hereby grants to you or your organization a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable license (a) to incorporate [... stuff deleted ...] and (b) to reproduce and distribute the Bundled Freeware Application to end users solely by electronic means (for example, posting on networks or Internet sites for others to download),

So, the only way to really (legally) distribute this would be on your own web site, or a web site that will never be picked up on a cdrom distribution.

The as of yet unreleased shareware licensing agreements will probably cover cdrom distribution.

Freeware and shareware often share the same distribution channel. It kind of puts a crimp in distribution if you cannot upload to any archive that might wind up on a cd-rom. (Furthermore, uploads to those archives are not always under the control of the author.) Hopefully they will go back and update the freeware license agreement as well. --- | "That'll make it hot for them!" - Guy Grand | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan@ctrl-alt-del.com|