Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

MB>
  > The file is available here as FAMAPI.ZIP.  My reading of the license,
  > however, is that it prohibits linking the library with your
  > own code [...]
MB>

 JdBP>   I think that a modicum of common sense would reveal that
 JdBP> it would be   pretty pointless distributing a software
 JdBP> library under those terms and   conditions.  (-:

Well, yes, but I also know you are far from a lawyer, so maybe you said
something you didn't mean.  Unfortunately, I was not so much concerned with
what you meant, but what you said.  :-)

 JdBP>   You had to go and make me dig up the library from storage,
 JdBP> didn't you? 

 JdBP>   As far as I can recall from when I wrote it (this was some
 JdBP> while ago),   the intent of the COPYING.DOC is basically to
 JdBP> stop you modifying the   original source and redistributing
 JdBP> the modified version, making money   from distributing the
 JdBP> library, involving me in legal proceedings, or   passing off
 JdBP> the library as your own work.

 JdBP>   What you do with your own applications, on the other hand,
 JdBP> is,   naturally, none of my business.

 JdBP>   ( Where "you" is the standard usage of
"you" in licence
 JdBP> documents. ) 

That's all I wanted to know.  Thanks for clarifying the issue.
 
-- Mike


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