Subj : IBM Developer's Toolbox
To   : David Noon
From : Murray Lesser
Date : Fri Oct 13 2000 12:14 am

(Excerpts from a message dated 10-12-00, David Noon to Will Honea)

Hi David--

DN>The licensing arrangements vary from product to product. The IBM
 >products are all perpetual licences unless they are stipulated
 >otherwise, as near as I can tell.

WH>  Last time I bothered to read
WH> the license it was still limited to the next release or 18 months
WH> (something like that).

DN>Those were the conditions for volume 1 of Dev Con. They changed
 >them for IBM products in Dev Con 2, as per my paragraph above; the
 >rules for OEM products were always product-specific.

   If you will remember, there once was a version of WebEx on a DevCon
CD that was Java-enabled (I don't remember when that was, and I'm too
lazy to go back through my drawer full of old DevCon CDs to find it).
The next issue of DevCon stated that the license for it had been revoked
and the product should be deleted.  No reason given, but I assumed that
another Java security bug had been discovered, and it was easier to
remove the product than to fix it.

DN>The time-limited products usually have a timer in them.

   The time-limited IBM products carry a date in one of the DLLs that
make the product inoperable after that date.  (I've forgotten which DLL
it was for the PL/I "evaluation" compiler, but it was used both by the
compiler itself and by any application built with that compiler, so that
all applications built with that compiler "timed out" at the same time
as did the compiler.)  The last few versions of the PL/I compiler
shipped in DevCon had "timed out" long before the CDs arrived :-(.

   Regards,

       --Murray
<Team PL/I>
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