Interestingly, there seems to be some disagreement on this, but some interesting legal points have come up...
> At 5:59 PM -0400 10/23/02, Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions wrote: > >To my knowledge, Macromedia has repeatedly said they have no objection to > >"projector sharing." To my knowledge, it is the exact opposite. I remember someone from Macromedia (although I forget who) saying that in order to legally create a stub-projector for a given platform, you must own a copy of Director for that platform. Clearly one of us has this wrong. > >At 12:01 PM -0400 10/23/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Even if it's for a good cause, it's technically a license violation > > >and/or > > >illegal, so I have to ask that you not use the list for this sort of > > >thing. Anyone who wishes to respond should not reply via the list. > > If I develop a project in Director for a client, I am effectively selling > someone a projector. Why if I give that projector to someone for free would > it be any different? This is the most interesting point I have heard on this subject. I don't see how they can prevent anyone doing this, under the terms of redistribution that come with Director. There might be a non-competition or anti-circumvention clause somewhere that broadly disallows behaviour that would cost Macromedia sales of Director, which might cover this. > I am assuming that in order to be absolutely legal you would have to > follow all relevant rules on Macromedia branding. However, the branding and registration rules only apply if you want to *distribute* a product, there is a specific exclusion for internal use. However, I suspect that to qualify as internal use the entity using the product would have to own the copy of Director that produced it. I don't think that is the interpretation that most developers currently go by though. IANAL, so I wouldn't trust my own judgement on this and would rather just go by whatever Macromedia says is their policy. After all, that's what counts at the end of the day, because the language of the T&C's can probably be twisted either way by a sufficiently skilled lawyer, and Macromedia can afford more lawyers than me ;-) - Robert [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
