[3279] in SIPB bug reports
Re: "hebcal" installed in the sipb locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Sun Nov 8 18:03:04 1992
To: mhpower@stan.mit.edu
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU, jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [3276] in SIPB bug reports
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 18:02:41 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
He's asking for donations. We could, without violating any trusts or
licenses or copyrights or anything, not send him any money. We could
also approve (or not) a $10 expenditure. Or jik could send him a
check, since I imagine he'll be one of the primary users. My guess is
the guy who wrote the software would be so ecstatic to get a check at
all, that he wouldn't care that several thousand people had access to
the software here.
Shareware vendors which "demand" payment should be handled as if we
were buying a piece of commercial software. We find out what they'd
want for an educational site-license, and pay it if we think it's
worth it. We could certainly install it for a month or something on a
"trial basis" (logging how many times it's run, for how long, etc),
since that goes along with the spirit of shareware.
Marc
