C-Isam Royalty Fees

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2 total messages Started by Steve Westfall Sat, 08 Feb 1986 04:46

#181

Author: Steve Westfall
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1986 04:46

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I posted this before, but there was no response to it, and I'm
not sure that it made it out of our site alive, so here goes again:

What is your opinion of this???

*** NOWHERE *** in their advertizing or promotional literature that I
have seen, and nowhere in their C-Isam manual (including the license
agreement), does Relational Database Systems, Inc. ("RDBS") ever
state that applications programmers who use their C-Isam file management
product must pay royalties to RDBS.  But recently during a phone
conversation with someone at RDBS it was incidentally mentioned
that I am using C-Isam with my applications programming.
I was then informed that I must sign a royalty agreement and send
RDBS $2500.00 ($25.00 for each of the first 100 copies I will sell)
before I can sell my program to anyone.

I have no objection to paying royalties to RDBS, and I am about to
put the check in the mail, but I am concerned that, with their
royalty policy mentioned nowhere in their literature, I will be
paying them royalties while others in a similar situation
(my competitors) will not pay because no one ever told them they
had to!  Does RDBS have the right to ask me for royalties in this
case?


Steve Westfall		      uucp:    ihnp4!gargoyle!west
Infotronx, Inc.
159 W. Roosevelt Rd.	      Phone:  312-231-6054 (ofc)
West Chicago, IL 60185

Re: C-Isam Royalty Fees

#182

Author: David HM Spector
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1986 16:02

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Check with your lawyer IMMEDIATELY.  Things like that (in NY State at least)
must (!!!) be stated in the lic. agreement.  This sounds like  they're changing
the rules of the game in the 9th inning...


					David Spector
					NYU/acf Systems Group

Also:  There is a package called "C-Tree", a complete ISAM kit, in source,
available from Consulair Corp, and they swear it'll compile under
Lattice, BSD4.[1|2], Whitesmiths, ATT and other C compilers, and it has no
royalty or distribution fee.  It lists for $395.

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