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Subject:Re: Cue Cards; licensing for MS Proj tool? From:"Mary M. Deaton" <marymd -at- HALCYON -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 13 Oct 1994 09:22:21 -0700
On Wed, 12 Oct 1994, Faith Weber wrote:
> Ed Hoornaert writes:
> >Mark asked about cue cards for Windows apps. A cue card author program
> >is packaged as a "tool" with Microsoft Project 4.0. It includes a
> >template and a set of cue cards to help create your own.
> Does anyone know how licensing works for this? I'm assuming that
> Microsoft is happy to let you write your own Cue Cards for your
> own purposes, but I doubt they want you to sell what you've created
> as part of your own product. (Also, I don't know whether you can
> use it to write Cue Cards for applications other than MS Project.)
> Faith Weber
> EA Systems Inc.
> weber -at- easi -dot- enet -dot- dec -dot- com
Turns out that Microsoft lets you free re-distribute any Cue CArds you
make with the little applet they ship with Project. Francine at
Communitech talked with them and confirmed this. The applet is a not too
fancy WinHelp with Word Basic macros setup that is easy enough to
replicate, anyway, if you know WinHelp and Word, and can be customized to
look differently by editing the HPJ and the style sheet.
