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>FrameReader can be freely distributed as long as it is used for
>non-commercial purposes. Non-commercial is defined as:
>- not for resale
>- not for commercial or personal gain
>- not repackaged
>- not bundled and distributed with any software or document collection
>Betsy Maaks
Er, Betsy, lets say I have a bunch of docs in FrameMaker, and I want to put
them on a CD-ROM so customers can read them as hypertext docs. I'm not
selling the FrameReader per se, I'm selling an information product that was
developed in FrameMaker.
If I want to put the FrameReader on the release CD so my customers have
hypertext access to the FrameMaker files, can I do it for no charge or for a
nominal fee (like I can with many other hypertext and multimedia playback
mechanisms)?
When I investigated doing this a couple years ago, I discovered that the
FrameViewer program would cost us over $50/CD to use - which made using
Frame to develop hypertext docs prohibitively expensive. That was one more
reason our team of about 50 techwriters decided to go with another package.
