Oliver - notes below...

-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Nelson [mailtoliver@ootbc.com]
Posted At: Friday, January 19, 2007 12:19 PM
Posted To: product-direction
Conversation: About the 'Personal Edition'
Subject: Re: About the 'Personal Edition'


> Yep... that makes it useless. Even if you give your software away you
> cannot write it in VDF personal as you NEVER will know if someone will


> use it in a business. (publish on the interweb anyone?) The license
> itself says that DAW can hold you responsible for your users... so ..
> "You are responsible for the provision of the correctly licensed
> Client Engines with Your Application Software."
>
> [CLC] The quoted text above refers only to the developer's
> responsibility to provide the proper Client Engine.


Chip,

So I think here are the questions that will make it "useful" for me (all
somewhat laughable if you ask me):

1. Does the not for business use mean: "You can't make freeware that is
intended to be used by businesses" OR does it mean: "You can't make
software from which you intend to receive revenue or which wholly
complements other software from which you receive revenue" (IOW I can't
write a utility for my software released under this license to avoid
client licensing in some way) or maybe it means both... (BTW if you
like my terminology you can license if from me...I call it 'freetext')
[CLC] Regardless of the mechanism, anything that is "released under this
license to avoid [commercial] client licensing in some way" is NOT
allowed. Also, your example of connecting of an application originating
in Personal with your commercial application doesn't fly either because
the user is almost certainly a business.

2. If we work this out...IOW figure out clearly exactly what DAW's
INTENT is with the license...will you consider revising the license
(which I understand will have costs associated with it for you...damn
lawyers) to clarify this or do we all have to save a copy of this NG
thread for future reference?
[CLC] We are open to license revisions that provide clarification.

OLIVER