Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!ems!rosevax!richw From: richw@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (Rich Wagenknecht) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal Subject: Re: MSC 5.0 License Agreement Message-ID: <3385@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 12:10:01 EST Article-I.D.: rosevax.3385 Posted: Thu Dec 3 12:10:01 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 05:37:02 EST References: <2412@mibte.UUCP> <803@neoucom.UUCP> Organization: Rosemount Inc., Eden Prairie, MN Lines: 22 Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:5724 comp.sys.ibm.pc:10795 misc.legal:4183 In article <803@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes: > If I ever do market the software I am working on, I will not use > MSC. I have no intention of giving a free plug to Microsoft via my > software. I consider Mircsoft's stance akin to having Sears insist > on having "This house was nailed together with a Sears hammer" > stenciled on my front door. > I really believe all of this is much ado about nothing. The legal agreement is of course terrible to read (unless you're a laywer) but I believe its requirements are being misinterpreted. The legal agreement on the disc envelope is the same agreement used on all MS compilers I've seen. The particular reference concerning the distribution of run-time modules and the displaying of MS's name refers only to run time modules. In other words only libraries and/or programs which are required to run your software but are not part of the compiled code itself. The only package in my knowledge which does this is MS QuickBASIC (note: you don't have to use this library but it does make the size of your executable file much smaller). This clause does not apply to C programs unless MS distributed some kind of kernel which was required to run your code. > --Bill Rich W.