Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!homxb!mhuxt!mhuxm!mhuxo!ulysses!gatech!emory!platt
From: platt@emory.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Converting MicroSoft C to Turbo C
Message-ID: <2172@emory.uucp>
Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 21:30:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: emory.2172
Posted: Fri Jul 10 21:30:11 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 07:37:22 EDT
References: <381@aucs.UUCP> <875@kodak.UUCP> <1206@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <1060@killer.UUCP> <305@ashtate.UUCP>
Reply-To: platt@emory.UUCP (Dan Platt)
Distribution: world
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
Lines: 39

In article <305@ashtate.UUCP> cy@ashtate.UUCP (Cy Shuster) writes:
>In article <1060@killer.UUCP> toma@killer.UUCP (Tom Armistead) writes:
>>Now that I have Turbo C, I have sold my copy of MSC 4.0,
>>for about $100.00. 
>
>Just a reminder: most software is not *sold* to you, but *licensed* for
>your use only. The MS License Agreement reads: "As the LICENSEE, you own
>the magnetic or other media on which the SOFTWARE is originally or subse-
>quently recorded or fixed, but Microsoft retains title and ownership of the
>SOFTWARE recorded on the original disk and all subsequent copies... In no
>event may you transfer, assign, rent, lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of 
>the SOFTWARE..."
> 
>--Cy--      cy@ashtate.UUCP

I feel the need to correct your stand on the standard Microsoft agreement.
It states:
	1)	Grant of License.  Microsoft grants to you the right to
	use this copy of a Microsoft language compiler program (the
	"compiler") and to distribute your programs created using the compiler.
	You may not network the compiler or otherwise use it on more than
	one computer (i. e. a single CPU) at the same time.  The compiler
	is owned by Microsoft and is protected by US copywrite laws...
	2)... (concerns the distribution of programs developed with Microsoft
	compilers)
	3) Other restrictions.  You may not rent or lease the compiler, but
	you MAY TRANSFER IT ON A PERMINANT BASIS if the person receiving it
	agrees to the terms of this agreement.
	4)... (You can't blame Microsoft if you are sued for a program you
	sold and developed with Microsoft software).

There was a big ruckus about software developers selling products developed
with MS compilers (Microsoft's license agreement wouldn't let you sell
things developed with their libraries).  Since then, several things have
changed, but you need to acknowlege them in your documentation and in the
program id header at the start of execution.  You may also sell your programs
as they become obsolete due to upgrades or otherwise.

Dan