Mailing List Archive: 49091 messages
  • Home
  • Script library
  • AltME Archive
  • Mailing list
  • Articles Index
  • Site search
 

[REBOL] Fw: REBOL/View/Pro licensing

From: ptretter::charter::net at: 14-Sep-2001 14:30

Some licensing clarification for you developers. I responded to Cindy expressing my dissatisfaction with the current licensing model in favor of ENCAP for the same price. I had already bought a personal edition of /Pro and paid the extra $99 for commercial distribution only to learn that if I create a "killer app" that I have to tell the buyer that they must go to RT's website and purchase /Pro. What does that mean? It means the following: I must sell my products at a lower price to remain competitive. I must inconvience buyers by directing them to purchase /Pro for unlocking the /Pro features of my scripts in addition to purchasing my script. What would be the fix - just provide ENCAP to those people purchasing commercial licenses. Its simple, I don't think I will get a good answer for why that isn't the case. I would rather pass the cost of each encapsulated application that I sell onto the buyer than to inconvience them this way. Paul Tretter ----- Original Message ----- From: Cindy Sassenrath To: Paul Tretter Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:02 PM Subject: Re: REBOL/View/Pro licensing Hi Paul, The REBOL/View/Pro license you bought is for your own commercial use, not a distribution license. The "key" is what unlocks the PRO features. If your application does not require any of the PRO features, you could sell you application and send a copy of View with it. If your application does require the PRO features then your customers would need a copy of View/Pro. This can be accomplished by either requiring them to purchase a copy or by signing up for our REBOL Royalty program. This program costs $499 per year which is an advance against a 10% royalty on your gross receipts less transaction fees. This allows developers to "give away" evaluation copies of their products and owe us nothing until they make sales. This program gives you a copy of our Encap product that allows you to encapsulate your scripts and REBOL/View/Pro into a single binary protecting your source code and making installation easy. The contract requires that the REBOL API not be accessible through your script. I hope this clears up any confusion. Please let me know if you have any further questions. Sincerely, Cindy Sassenrath REBOL Sales Support At 01:01 PM 9/14/01 -0500, you wrote: Hi Cindy, I have a question regarding the commercial licensing of REBOL/PRO. I purchased a commercial license today. The licensing text says that I cannot distribute the "key" with the any software. My question is how am I able to sell my software and unlock the features of my scripts to the people I distribute the software to? In other words will each buyer of my scripts be required to "purchase" REBOL/Pro? If so, then I'm not sure I needed to buy a commercial license. Please clarify the position on this as I am very confused and would like to "earn", as you do, profits from the programming I do without inconvenience to others that would like to buy my scripts by telling them they must also purchase REBOL/PRO themselves. How is that accomplished? Sincerely, Paul Tretter