[V4RB] Valentina Logo and Copyright info

[Robert Brenstein]

>Well, that is right. But that one developer opened up the eyes of others,
>and what he said is causing your sales more harm than some logos in
>About-boxes can give you. He was talking to us developers, the ones that
>have to buy your product.
>
>You know I am already an advocate for Valentina, because I feel much more
>power since I abandonded the REAL database engine, but that one complaining
>developer did have some good points.
>

A propos opening eyes, I wonder how many people actually read 
licensing texts in full detail. I did after the discussion we had in 
January (cf. "Time limited demo" thread) and that was quite an 
eye-opener for me.

For example,

we are required to purchase a separate copy of Valentina for each 
computer we use for development or testing -- see item 1 of grant of 
license in Software License

we are not allowed to archive older versions of Valentina if we 
upgrade (including betas) -- see item 6 of limitations in Software 
License

we are not allowed to use centralized backup systems -- see item 10 
of limitations

we are not allowed to resell Valentina if we have no use for it 
anymore -- see item 7 of limitations

a client that gets a custom application (as opposed to a program 
distributed to many) is required to purchase his/her own Valentina 
license -- see item 7 under limitations

using Valentina products that rely on the shared library is not 
allowed on servers -- see item 10 of limitations

passing the license code to Valentina engine at run-time does not 
really meet EULA, thus distributing Valentina library/plugin with our 
software is not legal unless explicitely licenced -- see January 
thread

we are not allowed to distribute programs developed in environments 
which do not produce compiled applications -- see item 1 in 
Commercial License


Well, enough of this. I really hope that the licensing issues will 
get cleaned up and improved together with the release of server and 
version 2.

Robert Brenstein