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Recently there have been some messages here and elsewhere complaining about
the $100/year licensing fee for distributing applications developed with
MacApp.  Specifically, people have been worried about paying such a fee
for the right to distribute public domain or not-for-profit software.

We are now looking into this matter and hope to have a solution available
soon.  In the meantime, I would like to point out the reason why there is
a MacApp licensing fee.  It is not because we are greedy, since a fee of
$100 per year per developer for an unlimited number of applications is not
a way to get rich quick.  Rather, since MacApp is an important asset of
Apple, and is only licensed to the developer (just like the system file
and finder), there are legal requirements that we charge some kind of fee
in order for the licensing arrangement to hold up (I'm not a legal expert,
so any questions on this should be directed to Apple's licensing department).
This is reminiscent of the old "For $1 and due consideration, etc." except
that it's not $1.  In any case, we are not out to make money on MacApp and
we are working on a solution for non-commercial applications.  Stay tuned.
-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.
MacApp Group

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