> But if what is being said is that once an end user has put > his stuff in, you the developer may not use the kit to > extract that data in a form which he can use in some other > competing database, well, no thanks. We need to get our > priorities straight: its his data. Don't tell him what to > do with it.
There is no restriction on exporting your data. You cannot incorporate the runtime into a database translator without our permission. Those are two different things entirely. > Take a tool - a plane or chisel for example. A supplier > cannot make two versions, a professional one and a DIY one, > and solely by conditions on purchase, forbid professional > carpenters from using the DIY one for purposes of trade. > Once people have bought things you can't tell them how to use > them. You can void their warranty. You can exempt yourself > from damages due to injury. But you can't stop them. I have > often wondered doubtrfully whether, when Filemaker sells an > academic version of Filemaker Advanced in the EU, and forbids > the buyer to sell works made with it, that would hold up in > court if challenged by some enterprising university or > charity. It would perhaps be wise of both supplier and buyer > not to insist on finding out. Almost all vendors have academic licensing that are similar to this, Revolution, REALbasic, Visual Studio, and the rest - and of course, you have all of the "creation" products such as Adobe sells. Id be happy if this was clarified under law - if academic pricing/restrictions were tossed out, it would mean the end of academic skus. The chisel/plane example I don't agree with - those tools are used to craft a result - you don't embed portions of a chisel or plane into your woodwork. Of course you COULD do this but then you'd need to buy a chisel for each one of your projects. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
