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- GIFtest Liscense Agreement and Order Form
- (C) Copyright 1991 by Dave Navarro, Jr.
-
- GIFtest is Copyrighted by Dave Navarro, Jr. as of April 1991 and
- is covered by US and International Copyright laws. The author reserves
- all rights.
-
- Liscense:
-
- Starting with version 2.0, GIFtest is now Shareware, and no longer
- freeware. This is to help offset the cost of development for GIFtest.
- You are granted a limited license to use GIFtest for a thirty (30) day
- period for the purpose of evaluating it for your own use. After thirty
- days, you are required to either register GIFtest or stop using it.
- To continue using it is a violation of copyright laws and just not a
- nice thing to do..
-
- The Shareware version of GIFtest is NOT crippled in any way. There
- are no missing features or timers. The only differences between the
- registered and unregistered versions of GIFtest are, the Shareware
- version displays my name, address and the requested registration fee
- at the end of the help screen, and their is a 2 second delay after each
- use and "UNREGISTERED version" is displayed. This does not cripple the
- program, or make it unusable, it's just annoying and acts as "incentive"
- for registering GIFtest.
-
- Registered owners will also recieve, free of charge with their order
- the following ulities designed to work with GIFtest:
-
- GIFbrand: Add a description of up to 5 lines by 40 charactors to
- a GIF file. GIFtest will extract these descriptions and
- "replace" any description typed by a user on ProDoor and
- PCBoard systems. Descriptions can also be "encrypted"
- so that they cannot be altered as a measure of security
- for BBSs that create original scans. GIFbrand also stores
- the original 32bit CRC in the file to help in duplication
- prevention on BBSs when the only change in a GIF is the
- addition on a description or comment.
- GIFread: Read and display any description that has been branded
- into a GIF file and display it along with a complete
- analasys of the GIF. Includes support for GIF89a text
- comment fields.
- GIFstats: Statistics program that analyses your GIFLOG and displays
- a summary of all the information contained. SysOps can
- redirect this to a file for bulletins on their systems.
- GIFstrip: Strips comments, and "extension" headers from GIF files
- to reduce their size. Including GIFLITE header, secondary
- images (multiple image GIFs), GIFbrand descriptions and text
- comments.
-
- Registered owners are also eligible for a discount on GIFLab and GIFLab
- Lite, a "graphical" version of GIFtest for sysops that displays what it is
- doing to both the local screen and on the remote users screen. Contact
- the author for more information.
-
- BBS Distribution:
-
- BBSs are granted a limited license to distribute GIFtest in a compressed
- format. The distributing BBS is not limited to the type of compression
- method used for distribution. However, the BBS must follow the following
- guidelines:
-
- 1. If GIFtest is distributed in a ".ZIP" file, the BBS must do it's
- best to preserve the "AV" that GIFtest was compressed with by the
- author. If a BBS wishes to have GIFtest sent to them directly
- from the author, please contact the author and a copy will be sent
- either by US Mail, or uploaded directly to the BBS. The sole
- exception to distribution of GIFtest without the security "AV"
- placed by the author is where a BBS uses a program to validate their
- uploads that, as a part of validation, reZIP's the file for maximum
- compression (not necessary since the distribution archive from the
- author is created with maximum compression enabled).
- 2. No BBS may, in re-ZIPing GIFtest, add to the ".ZIP" their own "AV"
- which does not belong to the author.
- 3. No BBS is authorized to add any files to the archive which are not
- part of the original GIFtest archive as distributed by the author.
- The sole exception is where a BBS adds an ASCII text file (containing
- no ANSI codes of any type) as an advertisement, and the filename for
- the file has not and/or will not change, and the BBS does not "cycle"
- filenames for the purpose of "fooling" upload checking programs from
- other BBSs which remove such advertisements.
- 4. No user may be charged any additional fee just to download GIFtest
- from the BBS.
-
- Shareware Vendor Distribution:
-
- This copyrighted software and its documentation is NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN.
- However, GIFtest may be distributed at no charge, or for a charge not to
- exceed $12 US to cover shipping and media costs. When secondarily
- distributed, GIFtest must be in its original compressed form and
- accompanied by its full documentation. The distributed software and
- documentation may not have been modified in any way.
-
-
- No secondary distributor is authorized to "register" an individual
- copy of GIFtest. Registration fees may only be sent directly to the
- author as outlined in the manual on disk. Note that the registration fee
- is exclusive of, and over and above any fees that may have been charged by
- a secondary distributor.
-
- A secondary distributor must notify it's customers that GIFtest is a
- shareware program and that the fee payed by their customer does not include
- any fees owed the author for use of this program.
-
- A secondary distributor must notify the author of their intention to
- include this group of files in their distribution. A secondary distributor
- may be granted exceptions to these conditions, only in writing from the
- original author.
-
- The author reserves the right to change any of these conditions without
- notice and any changes become retroactive. Failure to abide by this license
- agreement may result in either Civil Lawsuit or Criminal charges being filed.
-
- Special Shareware Version:
-
- The author will also provide any BBS or secondary distributor a "special"
- shareware copy of GIFtest that will display "Obtained from:[your bbs or
- company name here]". To obtain this special version, contact the author
- and a copy will be sent to you at no charge, either through US Mail, or
- uploaded directly to your BBS.
-
- Order Information
- -----------------
-
- Registration:
-
- Once you have registered GIFtest, you are eligible to recieve all
- future versions of GIFtest for no additional upgrade fee beyond
- any necessary shipping charges.
-
- Multi-node systems do not need to register one copy for each node,
- instead, we charge just a $10 fee which covers from 2 to unlimited
- number of nodes.
-
- Shipping and Handling:
-
- All orders REQUIRE a shipping and handling charge as shown below.
- These charges cover our costs in shipping your order and tracing
- delivery problems.
-
- Disk Only
- ---------
- USA (standard) $ 2.00
- USA (2nd day air) 8.00
- Canada and Mexico 3.00
- All other countries 5.00
-
- For each additional diskette up to a total of five add $1.00
- (regardless of destination). On orders for over five items contact
- the author for reduced shipping charges.
-
- Orders typically require 3 - 4 business days processing time before
- shipment, and may take more or less depending on our order backlog.
- US standard shipping is via UPS Ground, via US Priority Mail where
- UPS delivery is impossible (PO Boxes, Alaska, Hawaii, and APO / FPO
- addresses), and via First Class Mail for diskette-only orders. US
- 2-day shipping is via UPS Blue Label. All shipping outside the US is
- via Air Mail. Shipping time varies from 1 business day for UPS
- Ground to New England, to 6 business days for UPS Ground to California,
- to several weeks for countries outside the US where mail service
- is slow. Express shipping via UPS Red Label or Federal Express is
- available; contact us for rates.
-
- Payment Terms:
-
- Personal checks may be subject to a bank clearance delay before
- shipment. All payments must be made in US funds and drawn on a US
- bank; see below for more details on international orders. There
- is a $7 charge for all returned checks.
-
- International Orders:
-
- We are happy to accept orders from outside the US, but must require
- payment in the correct form to avoid the exorbitant fees charged by
- US and non-US banks for international check collections.
-
- Acceptable Payment:
-
- * A check or money order in US funds and drawn on a US bank.
- Checks which are not in US funds and drawn on a US bank must
- unfortunately be returned to you, resulting in significant
- delay in processing your order and additional expense to
- you.
- * An international postal money order in US dollars.
-
- GIFtest Order Form
-
- Return to: Dave Navarro
- 64-38 Admiral Ave
- Middle Village, NY 11379 USA
-
- *** SHIPPING CHARGES ARE REQUIRED ON ALL ORDERS. ***
-
- Name ________________________________________________________________
-
- Company _____________________________________________________________
-
- Address _____________________________________________________________
-
- _____________________________________________________________
-
- BBS Name (if applicable) ____________________________________________
-
- BBS Phone (if applicable) ___________________________________________
-
- BBS Software (if applicable) ________________________________________
-
- Register to: ___ Company ___ BBS ___ Individual
-
- I have read and agree to abide by the GIFtest license agreement:
-
- (Signature) _______________________________________________________
-
- Where did you hear about GIFtest? ___________________________________
-
- _____________________________________________________________________
-
- Price
- GIFtest with disk only, no manual, next update $15 ea. $ _______
- GIFLab with disk only, no manual, next update $15 ea. $ _______
- GIFtest ZipLab offer, no utilities, no update $10 ea. $ _______
- GIFLab "upgrade" for PCBoard & ProDoor $8 ea. $ _______
- GIFtest upgrade for registered user $3 ea. $ _______
-
- One time multi-node license (2 to unlimited nodes) $10 $ _______
- (required for multi-node systems)
-
- Disk size: ___ 5.25" acceptable ___ 3.5" required
-
- Subtotal $ ________
-
-
- Shipping Charges (see shipping costs on previous page) $ ________
-
- Total enclosed: $ ________
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