You will get different messages from Apple with each case you present, to different folks and at different times. When i have pressed a question they have usually ended up reverting to the letter of the license instead of waiving stuff. This has come up for me about a dozen times over the last decade. It was really funny when I did the Earth Explorer CD-ROM with them years ago (the first disc in Apple's ill fated CD-ROM publishing attempt), when these question came up it went around and around w/in apple for about two weeks before i got any straight answers. That was the early days of QT so it was all new...

I understand what Apple is trying to do and dont really disagree with it. Its just that you should read the agreement carefully and make sure your app can play w/in the rules so you dont get a client in dutch later if something was out of bounds or the client wants to do something different later. And I have to admit I have not looked at the qt license in the last 4-6 months since the question last came up! In looking at it they have simplified it some, but it still has this clause:

"Each Licensee Product must require End-Users not having QuickTime 6 on their computers to install the QuickTime Software using the QuickTime Installer."

they have dropped the installer stuff they use to have.

cheers,

jeff


Jeffrey Reynolds 6620 Michaels Dr Bethesda, MD 20817 301.469.8562 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Feb 7, 2005, at 5:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Jeffrey Reynolds wrote:
The main problem with including the quicktime installer is its license
agreement. You must make your application to only work with the version
of qt (or later) at the time you release your product.

I think I missed that clause of the license agreement.

I wrote an Apple rep some time ago to clarify some of the questions that
pop up here about it, and got her permission to post her reply to the list:
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2003-September/ 023869.html>


The license agreement itself is available at:
<http://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/ quicktime.html>


Any questions about it can be directed to the contact person noted there:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Remember that Apple's goal is to evangelize QuickTime, not annoy
developers.  If anything seems onerous about their license agreement it
can probably be clarified with a quick email to that address.

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