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Subject:2nd Question on citations.... From:Robert Courtney <bobsc1 -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:TECHWR-L -at- LISTS -dot- TECHWR-L -dot- COM Date:Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:49:29 -0700
Ok, my boss has asked me about licensing and if that needs to be with
the citations. I know you need to print licensing when selling software
or redistributing software. The software we would need to license would
be server software and other extraneous software. Think of Novell or
Windows licensing to redistribute.
So, he wants to put it in the helpfile and and I have never done that
myself and wanted to know about doing that. I would think it should be
with the marketing materials when selling the software package and not
with the help file or necessarily the users guides.
I would think it would belong in the installation guides as needed for
the product and supporting software.
All my writing has been with supporting software and those issues were
handled at the corporate level with the main disclosures.
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