License Agreement: Copyright Notice for Sign-On and Disks (38883)

SUMMARY

This article summarizes the copyright messages that must be included in a program developed for distribution.

If you do not include any run-time modules separate from your executable (.EXE) program, then you do not have to include any notice of copyright. (In Microsoft Basic Compilers, you can compile with the /O option to make a stand-alone program that does not require a separate run-time module.)

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You may distribute, free of any royalty fee, the following files only if they are a necessary and integrated component of your software product.

For all Microsoft Basic Compilers, QuickBasic, or Microsoft Basic Professional Development System (PDS), you may distribute the run-time module or run-time DLL, MSHERC.COM (from QuickBasic 4.50 or Basic PDS 7.00), QBHERC.COM (from QuickBasic 4.00 or 4.00b), MOUSE.COM, FIXSHIFT.COM, or PATCH87.COM.
For Microsoft Basic PDS, you may also distribute any xxxx.FON file, PROISAM.EXE, PROISAMD.EXE, ISAMIO.EXE, ISAMCVT.EXE, ISAMPACK.EXE, and ISAMREPR.EXE.

If you include any of the above supporting files from a Microsoft Basic product, you must have a copyright notice in both your software sign-on message and on your disk labels. It is not necessary to include this message in your manuals. The copyright notice should appear as follows:

This information applies to Microsoft QuickBasic Versions 2.00, 2.01, 3.00, 4.00, 4.00b, and 4.50, to Microsoft Basic Compiler Versions 6.00 and 6.00b for MS-DOS and MS OS/2, and to Microsoft Basic Professional Development System (PDS) Version 7.00 for MS-DOS and MS OS/2.

There are no royalty fees for distribution of the supporting files listed above.

This information comes from the documents ZRUN1 and ZRUN2, which are distributed by Microsoft Customer Service when a customer is concerned about copyrights and license agreements for Microsoft Business Language products.