------------ Category 11, Topic 8 Message 1 Thu Sep 24, 1992 JBEE at 03:01 EDT ARC/CS-DOS Licensing information on ARC/CS-DOS. Use Category #3 for information about how to use ARC/CS-DOS. We will license the code to approved authors/companies for inclusion within their own programs. For the right people we can work out "bartering" for programming work we need done instead of charging them cash. We will put out newer modules including ones for Zip. At the moment we will not license the source code itself. We will license the use of binary code in a product We will license the binary to other CS-DOS modules and will provide programming information. The cost to license multiple binary modules will be low or non-existant depending on your program. 1) For a royalty fee of 3% of the retail price x 100 units. The payment is due before you can license the code. You will also have to sign a NDA and non-compete contract (you won't develop an ARC for Geos which Parsec will be doing). 2)We will supply all programming tools needed (memory maps?) and will recompile the code if needed so it suits your application and and sys calls. 3)Somewhere on an opening screen you have to state the ARC/CS-DOS binary is a licensed product from Parsec. 4)License fees have to be paid for each new version and we have to have a copy of each new version that you produce of your program. This license isn't a blanket license and just because you have it for one product you may not use it in another. License fees will be due on major versions such as 1.0 2.0 3.0 etc and not 1.1. 1.2 1.3. We will have other products to license around the beginning of 93 and will use the same kind of setup as layed out here. We might waive payment if the product the code is going into is something we use or will want to use in the future. If we think your product is super duper even though we do not use it, we might waive the fee. We will also consider a cross-license deal. We will also consider barters. On non-commercial products (no charge for them - pd or freeware) we will consider a license for free or for $1 to established or respected authors. We will closely check out whoever we license and reserved the right to refuse anyone, though we do want to see tons of nice stuff for our C-128s so it is in our best interest to make it widely available. The cost to license multiple binary modules will be low or non-existant depending on your program. ------------ Category 11, Topic 8 Message 7 Mon Mar 08, 1993 C128.JBEE at 15:12 EST We license the rights to use CS-DOS/ARC/modules to authors of programs. Basically if they charge for their programs we charge them a small percentage for using our code. I have only been contacted by one person about licensing and they are producing a mail reader for no charge, so I am not charging them. When I bought CS-DOS/ARC I dropped the shareware requirements and it is free to use without any sort of guilt :) ------------