Re: FMP5 Licencing...

[Geof Holman <gholman@xxxxxxxx>]

The FMP inc. license is to broad and would not stand up in a court of
law...an example if I have a store online and use FMP5 as the catalogue for
my wares...and I have an application that accesses this database...then it
is my application running on my server who is the user of the database...the
persons requesting the catalogue information are actually querying my
application not FMP5, matter of fact I could use any database system, it is
still a single user...All the database sees is my application...Another way
to look at this is, if customers emailed me for information and I query my
catalogue database for the information and emailed them back...what's the
difference...none, my application just emulated my keystrokes, as long as my
customers do not directly access the database using the database query code.

P.S.
Its is a point of law that many software manufactures do not want to test.
I live in Canada and our laws are a little more progressive then in the
US...We can have joint here and no one cares, with a year or so cannabis
will be legal here...


on 11/10/99 1:27 PM, Bill Doerrfeld at bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> At 12:08 PM -0800 11/10/99, Jeremy Stoltz wrote:
>> Here is a paragraph out of the license agreement for FMP 5. It specifically
>> states you can't use a middleware product. I can send you the entire license
>> agreement if you would like.
> 
> Actually, to be clear, it specifically states you can't use
> "middleware...that allows more than a single client to access any
> FileMaker Pro database." While most middleware falls under that
> category, one product, e.g. Lasso Developer does not.
> 
> So, you can use Lasso Developer to develop sites with FileMaker Pro 5
> then serve them using Lasso Application Server and FileMaker Pro 5
> Unlimited (when available.)
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill
> 
> P.S. Hmmm... is the Web Companion middleware?
> 
> 
>> (e)    SPECIAL TERMS FOR FILEMAKER PRO ONLY:  If you have licensed the
>> standard version of FileMaker Pro, when deploying FileMaker Pro for hosting
>> non-FileMaker Pro clients, you are permitted to host up to but not more than
>> ten (10) guests (e.g., IP addresses via the Web Companion) or other API
>> connections  (e.g. ODBC, JDBC, Apple Events or Active X) on a rolling twelve
>> (12) hour schedule.   You are further prohibited from using the standard
>> version of FileMaker Pro with any middleware, application server, CGI, or
>> other software or technology that allows more than a single client to access
>> any FileMaker Pro database.
> 
> 
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