Hi Paul (& Frank),

FA>> /* The user is granted a free limited license to use this source file */
FA>> /* to create royalty-free programs, subject to the terms of the */
FA>> /* license restrictions specified in the LICENSE.MFL file.  */

FA>> Snipped from the current Snippets collection, fnsplit.c.  I
FA>> always thought everything in there was PD but it doesn't look
FA>> it.:-(

Bob has put a lot of work into building the MFL library (which he
started years before Snippets) and it has been an integral part of
much of his commercial work.  The new MFL licence is about as close
as you can get to PD but still retaining Bob's right to publish it
himself commercially.  See LICENSE.MFL below for details.

PE> You should inform Bob about that.  In the meantime, I've added
PE> it to OZPD.  I split it up and called it fnsplit.c and
PE> fnsplit.h.

FA>> If i don't want people to use my code freely, why would i post
FA>> it into a snips collection ?  To be a show off ?

I think you're being a little unfair there, Frank.

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  Attr: Local Read                                    Date: 02 Nov 96  09:57:46
  From: Bob Stout
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  Subj: MFL code in SNIPPETS

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 Some of you probably noticed a change in the string trimming functions I just
posted, specifically, the inclusion of a full MicroFirm copyright notice and
reference to a LICENSE.MFL file. Beginning with the upcoming SNIPPETS release,
I've stopped including MFL crippleware source in SNIPPETS so all MFL code in
SNIPPETS will be functionally identical with the same functions in MFL.

  So what about LICENSE.MFL? I'm including it below. Basically it says you're
free to use the code as SNIPPETS code has always been meant to be used. The only
restriction is on commercial publication of source and object modules. This
should be no problems since you're free as always to use this code to create
your own programs which you may sell, give away, or otherwise do with what you
want.


+++Date last modified: 02-Nov-1996

Portions of SNIPPETS code are Copyright 1987-1996 by Robert B. Stout dba
MicroFirm. The user is granted a free license to use these source files in
any way execept for commercial publication other than as part of your own
program. This means you are explicitly granted the right to:

1.  Use these files to create applications for any use, private or commercial,
    without any license fee.

2.  Copy or otherwise publish copies of the the source files so long as the
    original copyright notice is not removed and that such publication is
    free of any charges other than the costs of duplication and distribution.

3.  Distribute object files and/or libraries compiled from the supplied
    source files, provided that such publication is free of any charges other
    than the costs of duplication and distribution.

Rights reserved to the copyright holder include:

1.  The right to publish these works commercially including, but not limited
    to, books, magazines, and commercial software libraries.

2.  The commercial rights, as cited above, to all derivative source and/or
    object modules. Note that this explicitly grants to the user all rights,
    commercial or otherwise, to any and all executable programs created using
    MicroFirm copyrighted source or object files contained in SNIPPETS.

Users are specifically prohibited from:

1.  Removing the copyright notice and claiming the source files or any
    derivative works as their own.

2.  Publishing the source files, the compiled object files, or libraries of
    the compiled object files commercially.

In other words, you are free to use these files to make programs, not to make
money! The programs you make with them, you may sell or give away as you
like, but you many not sell either the source files or object files, alone
or in a library, even if you've modified the original source, without a
license from the copyright holder.


Bob Stout
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            C_Echo moderator (1990-1991, 1996-1997)
Internet:   bobstout{at}neosoft.com
SnailMail:  MicroFirm
            P.O. Box 428
            Alief, TX 77411 

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I hope this clarifies things.

Michael Stapleton of Graphic Bits
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