In message <DEA23DB61B62D4118B5900508B323B84012CC7D7 at OPENMAIL> you wrote: > > I don't accuse, I just tell you. > > You can tell me I'm a purple elephant but that doesn't make it true :-)
I just tell you a fact: The BDI2000 firmware is a software product for which you have to pay a license fee. The license explicitely says that this license cannot be transferred. > > To get access to the firmware which comes on a floppy disk you have > > to open the plastic bag thereby destroying a sticker that reads: > > To access the new firmware, I unzip the zip file. > There is no text to read. There is no license agreement. > > > I am not a lawyer, but this is pretty clear text, isn't it? > > There was *no* text accompanying the zipfile. I want to call your attention to the fact that if you received the zip file from anyboy else but Abatron support or from one of their official distributors you might have been given an illegal copy of the software. In the previous message you claimed that you were using version 1.09 before, i. e. you must have purchased your BDI2000 before the release of 1.10 which was in November 2001. So your one year warranty period must have ended in November 2002 (or earlier). 1.12 was released in anuary 2003 - if you did not pay for an extension of the support (which you obviously did not, as you did not even know that this option exists) you probably have no legal right to use version 1.12. I agree that it is unfortunate that Abatron did not include any EULA or other legal stuff in their zip files. I have put Abatron on the Cc: list, maybe they will change this now. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
