Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!rutgers!mcnc!rti!sas!walker From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "PD Piracy" Message-ID: <629@sas.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 88 13:58:33 GMT References: <8809201234.AA02448@decwrl.dec.com> <389@boing.UUCP> Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC Lines: 20 >So it seems to me the only way for someone to make use of a pd program with >such a disclaimer is to contact the copyright holder themself and get >written authority to reproduce the pd program and distribute the pd program >in a way contradictory to the disclaimer. >-- >Dale Luck Boing, Inc. {cbmvax|oliveb|pyramid}|!amiga!boing!dale Exactly correct. The author(s) of zoo have a perfect legal right to prevent anyone from using their product for any purpose whatsoever. They chose to allow non-commercial uses, and require commercial uses be cleared with them first. The Software Distillery also chose this approach with BLink; several commercial developers (including Lattice, which eventually obtained all rights to BLink) contacted us and got our permission to distribute BLink with their product. Our requirements generally were a free copy of the product that included BLink. Zoo is, however, in a slightly different class, since a major part of its function is to distribute software. Apparently, the authors chose not to allow commercial distribution in order to protect themselves from exploitation, but if the Distillery was responsible, we would have no problems granting permission for the use you describe. I suggest contacting the authors.