L I C E N C E Version 1.00 Copyright , 1994 by SOFTERM (Australia) Level 7, 120 Pacific Highway St Leonards NSW Australia 2065 Telephone: (61-2)-438-4299 Fax: (61-2)-906-6548 CompuServe Mail: 100033,3107 (Feedback welcome!) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (README.TXT) DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY THIS SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION ARE SOLD "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS INTO WHICH THIS PROGRAM MAY BE PUT, NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED. WHILE WE HAVE MADE EVERY EFFORT TO TEST THE PRODUCT IN A WIDE VARIETY OF OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS, GOOD PROCEDURE DICTATES THAT ANY PROGRAM BE THOROUGHLY TESTED WITH NON-CRITICAL DATA BEFORE RELYING ON IT. THE USER MUST ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK OF USING THE PROGRAM. ANY LIABILITY OF THE AUTHOR WILL BE LIMITED EXCLUSIVELY TO PRODUCT REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF PURCHASE PRICE. DISTRIBUTION OF LICENCE THE AUTHOR OF LICENCE UNCONDITIONALLY RETAINS ALL RIGHTS PURSUANT TO THE COPYRIGHT LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES (AUSTRALIA). That said, the author very much encourages distribution of this product, under the following conditions: 1. Any person serving as a distributor of the Licence must retain exactly the original form of the distribution, by including ALL files, in unmodified condition, especially including but not limited to documentation and product screens that refer to registration information, forms, and procedures, that are part of distribution conducted by the author. The files included in the author's distribution of the Licence product are the following: LICENCE.DLL (The ShareWare version of the Licence file.) README.TXT (This file.) REG_FORM.TXT (The Registration application.) REGDEMO.EXE (A VB demo of LICENCE.DLL functions.) REGDEMO.FRM (The above demo Source.) REGDEMO.FRX (The above demo Icon file.) REGDEMO.MAK (The above demo Make file.) SERIAL.EXE (The 'Set' Licence file.) SERNUMB.EXE (A VB demo for creating a Licence Number.) SERNUNB.FRM (The above demo source.) SERNUMB.MAK (The above demo Make file.) 2. Owners or operators of Electronic Bulletin Boards, such as CompuServe, may acquire or accept, and then distribute copies of Licence through their EBB service, subject to the conditions above, and may further do so in the context of charging subscribers to their services a general fee for belonging to the membership of the service, and/or for time on-line, as long as these charges are not specifically related to overt sale of the Licence product. This should in no way be construed as relinquishment, by the author, of his copyright protection and sole ownership of Licence. SUGGESTED PRODUCT "BLURB": ------------------------- Title: LICENCE Keywords: LICENCE, DLL, VB, VISUAL BASIC, WINDOWS Product Description: Encrypted Licence DLL for VB developers 3. Persons wishing to contact the author for purpose of negotiating limited distribution rights for Licence should contact SOFTERM (Australia) by any of the methods at the top of this file. 4. Any persons possessing a bona fide copy of the shareware version of the program, as originally distributed by the author, may freely copy and distribute the product to whomever they like, as long as they retain exactly the original form of the distribution, by including ALL files, in unmodified condition, especially including but not limited to documentation and product screens that refer to registration information, forms, and procedures, that are part of distribution conducted by the author, and as long as they assess no fees beyond those required for materials needed in distributing the product, i.e., matching exactly the cost of floppy disks, mailing materials and costs, or long-distance phone charges relevant to electronic distribution. 5. With the exceptions of EBB operators, under the conditions described above, and that of persons entering into written contractual distribution agreements with SOFTERM (Australia), other persons engaged in the distribution of software for profit ARE EXPLICITLY PROHIBITED from marketing or selling, in any form, any files or parts of files, or modified versions of files, that are part of the author's product distribution. 6. Developers of software products who incorporate ANY portion of the binary portions of the author's product, or who copy features or aspects of the user-interface of the product subject to protection by the laws of copyright, SHALL BE PROSECUTED, unless they have the express, written permission of SOFTERM (Australia), to do so.