Following the discussion here about licensing QuickTime installers for inclusion on your CD-ROMs, I posted the questions raised here to Apple's QT discussion list. I got a personal reply from an Apple rep which clarifies things, and she's given me permission to post it here: ------------------------------------------------------------
Hello Richard, Thanks for your comments to the mailing list about QuickTime licensing. We work very hard to make it easy to distribute QuickTime, however we also must protect our technology and our brand. So the 7 page license agreement is what we feel is necessary for that protection, the rest of the pages are exhibits. We have had a very successful licensing program with thousands of licensees, and yes someone looks at each submission. One of the items submitted is sent to engineering as they use these products for testing new versions of QuickTime and the other is sent to marketing so that we can demonstrate these products and promote products that use and include QuickTime. We have a team of folks who can answer questions regarding the license if your customers should have any (cc:d here). And no we don't require an update to a product for each dot release of QuickTime. The license for QuickTime 6 might be a little confusing because we can only allow licenses for QuickTime 6.0.3 and later but people don't need to sign a new license or ship a revved version of their product when we release a new dot release of QuickTime. I hope this helps clarify things and that you continue to evangelize QuickTime. cheers, rhonda QuickTime Team ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution