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From: richw@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (Rich Wagenknecht)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: MSC 5.0 License Agreement
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Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 12:10:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 12:10:01 1987
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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.