#Key sticking
I don't think there would be too many legal ramifications in selling an
Amiga search engine for the Microsoft reference CD. Microsoft would still
get their royalties for the CD since you would have to buy it anyway. You
might run into trouble if a company sells a search engine and CD Rom
seperately, but even then I don't think you would have too much trouble
getting their permission since it will increase sales of the CD Rom. For
instance, the Buckmaster Ham Radio CD has a seperate search engine called
"Questar" from Sony. You have to pay an extra $50 to get it. So if I were
to write an Amiga search engine that used the Questar index's, then I'm
sure I would have to get permission from both Sony and Buckmaster. Or I
could create my own index based on the data file and get permission from
Buckmaster to distribute it, etc.
John (in beautiful downtown Walla Walla) – via Whap!