[mapguide-users] Legal issues for publishing DWG files?

[Andrew DeMerchant]

Wow - ya, your reseller must have a quota to fill or something. That's 
just plain untrue. I suspect, in reality, it's a matter of ignorance. 
Resellers seem to be pretty uneducated when it comes to MGOS and Studio.

Andrew

Jackie Ng wrote:
> I think your re-seller is telling you some lies ;-)
>
> The theoretical situation your re-seller described about Autodesk seems to
> go against all the reasons why they open-sourced the product in the first
> place!
>
> - Jackie
>
>
> jamesdudden wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i have been trying out MGOS 1.1 and Studio07(trial version) for a client.
>> I am now at the stage where he would like to move forward and i have been
>> asked to purchase Studio.
>>
>> Whilst talking to a re-seller he advised me that i would not legally be
>> allowed to publish DWG files using MGOS and to get round this would have
>> to purchase MGEnterprise. He said if Autodeask found out they would come
>> down hard on anybody breaking these rules.
>>
>> Is this true? 
>>
>> If anybody has any information regarding this subject i would gladly
>> welcome it.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> James Dudden
>>
>>     
>
>   

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