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[sdpd] Re: Epidemic of licence file

Hello,

I can understand the request of the registration as long as it can be easy
done (e-mail, like -for instance- WinGX ) and does not require any
paperwork.   The programmer wants to know how many people are using it for
updates, etc...
The point is that the number of users ignoring a program is proportional
with the difficulty in getting it (unless that program is really great but I
never found such one!).

N

http://www.chem.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/appchem/labs/kitazawa/dragoe/
----- Original Message -----
From: Armel Le Bail <alb... @cristal.org>
To: <sdpd... @egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 4:26 PM
Subject: [sdpd] Epidemic of licence file


> I do not understand this new tendency to require to sign
> a licence in the domain of free-for-academic software.
>
> "To enable full functionality of XXX a licence file is required"
>
> Recent XXX are WinGX, DIRDIF (and others ?)
> Old ones are SHELX, EXPO (and much more ?)
>
> For each new version (with a frequency of 6 or 12 months)
> we will have to sign a new licence ?
>
> This is becoming a little boring. The GNU licence does
> not request any code number for enabling full functionality,
> nor to sign any paper.
>
> I understand the pleasure of programmers to have a huge
> list of users. May be this list can help for being funded.
>
> But, in the past, it was sufficient to present a list of
> publications in which the software was used successfully...
>
> Opinions ?
>
> Armel Le Bail
> http://www.cristal.org/course/
>