Re: XyWrite and C (in the 21st century)

[Peter Cassidy pcassidy@xxxxxxxx]

Right, TTG bought the company with any licensing agreements. I wonder
what NB's licensing agreement says in terms of down-stream sub-licensing
and if that is explicitly prohibited. And if they are restricted in
terms of final build or numbers of builds on that Xywrite Engine. They
are making money on a niche market now. If they had pre-orders for
"XyWrite: The Resurrection" edition, I dunno, they might put some cycles
into it. There's no real other legal direction outside of a
cost-prohibitive clean-room build.

Peter

Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> Peter Cassidy wrote:
>>> From whom did the NotaBene people license the code for their software?
>> Was NB a clean-room build?
>
> Almost certainly NOT a clean-room build. Almost 20 years ago, I
> attended a seminar by the originator of NB. He said he had gone to
> XyQuest, the then owner, and licensed the "XyWrite Engine," then
> started building on the bibliography and citation modules. AFAIK, that
> continued to be the case when TTG bought Xy.