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#Workbench Licenses?

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#263From: Thomas HoladaySep 11, 1990 2:12 AM
What's involved in distributing an application on a self-booting albeit stripped-down Workbench disk? Clearly a fee is due Commodore; does it matter whether the fee is paid by the developer or by the publisher, if these are different? THol() { cout << "Sir, I exist." ;}
#264From: Mike Spille/ManxSep 11, 1990 2:57 AM
Call CATS and tell 'em you want a Workbench License and they'll send you all the necessary forms etc. you need. It's pretty easy, and I don't think it costs much (they like to encourage workbench licenses, from what I can tell). I doubt they care where they get the fee from, as long as the money's green 😎 -Mike
#265From: Mike Spille/ManxSep 11, 1990 2:58 AM
BTW, I have a strong suspicion that you may have to be a commercial developer to get a workbench license… -Mike
#268From: BILL LEACHSep 11, 1990 6:40 AM
Mike; No, a certified developer may also buy the workbench distribution license. 73, bill
#272From: Betty Clay/SYSOPSep 11, 1990 9:02 AM
Mike, I know of a number of user groups who have Workbench licenses, so that they can distribute things to their users all set up and ready to run. So, it certainly does not require a commercial developer to get one. I have heard that the fee is approximately $100 per year. Betty
#283From: Mike Spille/ManxSep 11, 1990 3:39 PM
Well, I guess that why I said I just suspected it 😎 So it sounds even easier than I had thought to get a license. -Mike
#334From: Vic WagnerSep 12, 1990 4:10 PM
Betty, Really???? Hmmm, I tried to get our user group such a license a couple of years ago and was told "no". I wonder when they changed their minds? Victor A. Wagner, Jr.
#370From: John DraperSep 13, 1990 12:10 PM
Not so Mike. If that were true, nobody could put out an application that included the WorkBench unless they had already put out one that did not. 🙂 -larry
#269From: Thomas HoladaySep 11, 1990 7:04 AM
Do you know offhand whether the Workbench License is per-product or per-developer or per-publisher? For example, does General Amusements Corp. buy fifty licenses (one for each title), or five (one for each of its senior programmers), or one (for General Amusements Corp.)? THol() { cout << "Sir, I exist." ;}
#281From: Mike Spille/ManxSep 11, 1990 3:37 PM
It's a blanket-deal, unlimited copies for a particular company (for a year I think). -Mike