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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
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Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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>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.