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Mac Forum / Programming / CodeWarrior / January 2006Question about Codewarrior license terms
Hi, (I realise MW Ron has now left the building, so there maybe nobody else qualified to answer this, plus codewarrior.windows is a tad quiet now...) Considering Codewarrior for Windows (v9, running on Mac OS X) is not for sale anymore, what is the situation with licenses? Our customer will eventually receive the source code for one our projects whereupon they will continue maintenance of the software. We still need all our licenses, so what must our customer do? We don't have any spare and I have been unable to find a copy for sale? Because this is now obsolete software do the license terms still apply? (I'm no expert here!) Thanks for any advice.  SignatureRegards, Steve "...which means he created the heaven and the earth... in the DARK! How good is that?" you should be able to transition your windows code to VC++ without much fuss. you're also assured an upgrade path that way, and it'll probably be cheaper since you can use the VC++ compiler for free. On 19/1/06 07:28, in article 1137655707.712513.60260@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "brandon" <bsneed@gmail.com> wrote: > you should be able to transition your windows code to VC++ without > much fuss. you're also assured an upgrade path that way, and it'll > probably be cheaper since you can use the VC++ compiler for free. Probably, but if our customer isn't willing to pay for the work, we're not going to do the work for free! SignatureRegards, Steve "...which means he created the heaven and the earth... in the DARK! How good is that?" That is completely understandable. I have absolutely no clue what the legal status is, but you could try contacting Freescale to see what they say. Someone there might even remember the product. ;-) Other solutions include: - Don't worry about it. Freescale isn't going to be hunting down people who are using a copy they didn't purchase. - Check around for a used copy. More and more people will have a copy they don't use anymore and would probably be willing to sell. Larry >> Considering Codewarrior for Windows (v9, running on Mac OS X) is >> not for sale anymore, what is the situation with licenses? Legally speaking (unfortunately), the license still applies, despite the fact the product has been discontinued with no replacement (I've often wondered how much more productive things would be if discontinued products essentially became "freeware"). However, there are a number of options available to you. Firstly, I still see CodeWarrior 9 available on Ebay, so that is a way to get the product. Secondly, CodeWarrior 10 is similar enough to 9 that you may be able to modify the project only slight to compile under 10. That way, your customers can download CodeWarrior 10 for only $99 and compile the project. Finally, you may have to simply back away from supporting this project. After all, if your project is using unsupported tools to build, you are left in the unenviable position to do the supporting. Upgrading your project to CodeWarrior 10 seems like the best approach to me. Jonathan Hoyle Eastman Kodak his customers would have to obtain components from 9 to make it build windows apps, and even then they would be without debugging capabilities. >> his customers would have to obtain components from 9 to >> make it build windows apps, and even then they would be >> without debugging capabilities. Ah, Windows compatibility is required. (I didn't catch that the first time.) In that case, he may have no choice but to purchase a copy of CW 9 second hand. (I do not believe that the CW 9 Win compiler plugin works in the CW 10 IDE, as the project types have changed from 9 to 10.) You can still find it at places. Ecost sells the Windows version for an outrageous $539.94: http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail.asp?dpno=553524 ; hopefully you can find it cheaper, but there you have it. The Mac OS X version can be gotten for as little as $185.99 at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5851698544 . Someone may be able to weasel you a copy, but that would not be a viable recommendation for your customers. Regards, Jonathan Hoyle Eastman Kodak > (I do not believe that the CW 9 Win compiler plugin > works in the CW 10 IDE, as the project types have changed from 9 to > 10.) The CW 9 WIndows parts do work in the CW 10 IDE, with a couple of exceptions: 1. You probably need to use the CW 9 version of MSL for Windows, since its Windows-specific parts were not updated for CW 10. 2. Remote debugging does not work with a Windows target. >> The CW 9 WIndows parts do work in the CW 10 IDE, with a >> couple of exceptions: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >> 2. Remote debugging does not work with a Windows target. That's excellent to hear. I currently have two versions of CodeWarrior on my portable, 9 and 10, one for cross-platform work, and one for Mac-only. I sounds like I can combine them into one. Is there a procedure you can recommend to me for combining. I assume I start with the CW 10 folder and begin dragging certain items from the CW 9 folder for the Windows stuff. Or perhaps it is better to begin with the CW9 Mac/Win directory, and add the CW 10 Mac items? Thanks in advance, Jonathan Hoyle Well, the time i tried, i basically went through v9 directory and any files that 10 didn't have, i copied. I also had to paste the windows portions of my v9 license into the v10 license file. There are some changes to a few of the v10 MSL headers that don't compile with the v9 window compiler, but they're pretty straight forward to fix. The whole operation took less than an hour, and a good portion of that was spent trying in vain to get the v9 debugger plugin to work without making a stub to shim from the v9 plugin format to the v10 format. |
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