Re: Licencing for BPCS source

Wow. I knew that they were getting a bit more stingy on giving out
licensing to source but this just seems absurd. I'm guessing that this
one should end up in court if they don't back down because I can't see how
you guys are in any violation. I am not a lawyer, but from the "gut
feeling" section of my reasoning... if you are working with source that
was previously supplied then they can't revoke that... you just wouldn't
have entitlement to any NEW source. I would be shocked and scared if my
reasoning is not correct on this one... really really scared.


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
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When we bought BPCS many years ago, in the contract the definition for
Software included source code. A few years ago we signed at standard OGS
agreement for 3 years, which had a line (unnoticed at the time) to say
the base agreement was linked to another contract we have with Infor
where software is defined as object format only. We were recently
audited, and told we were using BPCS source illegally, and they wanted
to charge us for the use of source code. To cut a long story short, the
charge was waived (as we had licenses to AS/SET for a period), but they
are forcing us to remove source code, and hand over all our
modifications to the local affiliate for safe keeping, which will be
used when and if we upgrade again.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Does the fact that new contracts
specify object code only, mean we have to remove source code that we
have?(which was legally supplied to us in the past)



Rene van Besouw

Parmalat South Africa