re xv has escaped in article apr comp lancs ac uk julian comp lancs ac uk julian g self writes wasn t the shareware fee a suggestion by john is so then it s up to the individual to make the choice whether or not to honour it and part with money personally if i was in his position i would do exactly the same thing john has obviously put in lot of time and effort into xv and why shouldn t he receive some money for it it is interesting to look at the change s of mind that john has had the author file for xgif an early incarnation of xv reads in part as follows do whatever you want with this program though it would be nice if my name remained on it somewhere other than that it may be freely modified distributed and used to fill up disk space the readme file for xv reads in part as follows note if you like the program and decide to use it please send me a short email message to that effect be sure to mention the full name of your organization when our sponsors ask us what have you been doing it would be most handy to be able to come up with a nice long list of organizations that are using code developed in the grasp lab brownie points as it were the copyright notices as it appeared then was copyright by the university of pennsylvania permission to use copy and distribute for non commercial purposes is hereby granted without fee providing that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation the software may be modified for your own purposes but modified versions may not be distributed this software is provided as is without any express or implied warranty the readme file for xv reads in part as follows also if you find xv to be nifty useful generally cool and of some value to you your donation not tax deductable would be greatly appreciated u s is probably a fine amount to donate folks who donate and up will receive a nice bound copy of the xv manual printed on a spiffo dpi laser printer it ll look lovely mounted over your fireplace which looks to me as a suggestion see julian s comment above the copyright notices as it appeared then was copyright by john bradley and the university of pennsylvania the readme for xv reads in part as follows xv is shareware for personal use only you may use xv for your own amusement and if you find it nifty useful generally cool or of some value to you your non deductable donation would be greatly appreciated is the suggested donation though of course larger donations are quite welcome folks who donate or more can receive a printed bound copy of the xv manual for no extra charge if you want one just ask be sure to specify the version of xv that you are using commercial government and institutional users must register their copies of xv for the exceedingly reasonable price of just per workstation x terminal site licenses are available for those who wish to run xv on a large number of machines contact the author for more details the second paragraph to me says that universities must register and pay a potentially large sum of money the copyright notices now read copyright by john bradley was this developed on upenn s time equipment what do they and the grasp lab mentioned above have to say about all this richard bingle bingle cs purdue edu dept of computer sciences backbone purdue bingle purdue university west lafayette in
