Questions about SIMPOL

[Anthony Brea]

I haven’t purchased SIMPOL yet, but I am considering it. I see the licensing comes from SIMPOL Limited. Is there a way where SIMPOL Limited’s involvement is kept transparent from my client? I also notice mention of “trial limited” or “time limited” use of SIMPOL. Who decides the time or feature limits? Thanks

[Michael]

Anthony Brea wrote:
> I haven't purchased SIMPOL yet, but I am considering it.
>
> I see the licensing comes from SIMPOL Limited. Is there a way where
> SIMPOL Limited's involvement is kept transparent from my client?

Not sure what you mean. You purchase the development environment from
Simpol Limited, and potentially for deployment multi-user database
engine licenses (with the installation software). There is no license
required for the single-user engine, and no license for the standard
runtime components.

> I also notice mention of "trial limited" or "time limited" use of
> SIMPOL. Who decides the time or feature limits?

The time limit is for the development environment. It does not time
limit the programs that are created.

Ciao, Neil

[Anthony Brea]

I found the following on the SIMPOL website.

http://www.simpol.com/developer_business.html

"The SIMPOL API set and database functionality are presented as software
components or objects that can be integrated directly into third party
applications. Professional developers, independent software vendors
(ISVs) and OEMs wishing to distribute applications built using SIMPOL
Professional will need to distribute these component with their application.

The SIMPOL Professional license allows developers to distribute the
SIMPOL run-time library with trial (feature-limited) versions of SIMPOL
database components and connectors. Features and limits are controlled
by means of an external license key. Users requiring unlimited
functionality will need to obtain the appropriate license key.

….

Could you clarify what this page is talking about?

Neil Robinson wrote:

> Anthony Brea wrote:
>> I haven't purchased SIMPOL yet, but I am considering it.
>>
>> I see the licensing comes from SIMPOL Limited. Is there a way where
>> SIMPOL Limited's involvement is kept transparent from my client?
>
> Not sure what you mean. You purchase the development environment from
> Simpol Limited, and potentially for deployment multi-user database
> engine licenses (with the installation software). There is no license
> required for the single-user engine, and no license for the standard
> runtime components.
>
>> I also notice mention of "trial limited" or "time limited" use of
>> SIMPOL. Who decides the time or feature limits?
>
> The time limit is for the development environment. It does not time
> limit the programs that are created.
>
> Ciao, Neil

[Anthony Brea]

Anthony Brea wrote:
> I found the following on the SIMPOL website.
>
> http://www.simpol.com/developer_business.html
>
> "The SIMPOL API set and database functionality are presented as software
> components or objects that can be integrated directly into third party
> applications. Professional developers, independent software vendors
> (ISVs) and OEMs wishing to distribute applications built using SIMPOL
> Professional will need to distribute these component with their
> application.
>
> The SIMPOL Professional license allows developers to distribute the
> SIMPOL run-time library with trial (feature-limited) versions of SIMPOL
> database components and connectors. Features and limits are controlled
> by means of an external license key. Users requiring unlimited
> functionality will need to obtain the appropriate license key.
>
> …
>
> Could you clarify what this page is talking about?
>
> Neil Robinson wrote:
>
>
>> Anthony Brea wrote:
>>> I haven't purchased SIMPOL yet, but I am considering it.
>>>
>>> I see the licensing comes from SIMPOL Limited. Is there a way where
>>> SIMPOL Limited's involvement is kept transparent from my client?
>>
>> Not sure what you mean. You purchase the development environment from
>> Simpol Limited, and potentially for deployment multi-user database
>> engine licenses (with the installation software). There is no license
>> required for the single-user engine, and no license for the standard
>> runtime components.
>>
>>> I also notice mention of "trial limited" or "time limited" use of
>>> SIMPOL. Who decides the time or feature limits?
>>
>> The time limit is for the development environment. It does not time
>> limit the programs that are created.
>>
>> Ciao, Neil

You probably missed this.

Thanks

[Michael]

Anthony Brea wrote:
> Anthony Brea wrote:
>> I found the following on the SIMPOL website.
>>
>> http://www.simpol.com/developer_business.html
>>
>> "The SIMPOL API set and database functionality are presented as
>> software components or objects that can be integrated directly into
>> third party applications. Professional developers, independent
>> software vendors (ISVs) and OEMs wishing to distribute applications
>> built using SIMPOL Professional will need to distribute these
>> component with their application.
>>
>> The SIMPOL Professional license allows developers to distribute the
>> SIMPOL run-time library with trial (feature-limited) versions of
>> SIMPOL database components and connectors. Features and limits are
>> controlled by means of an external license key. Users requiring
>> unlimited functionality will need to obtain the appropriate license
>> key.

Never trust anybody else to write your copy :(. That is a generic
statement that is meant to cover potential components that are not
licensed in the same way. This allows us to do joint ventures with
potential functionality providers and license the components (and our
middleware wrappers) on a different basis to the core redistributable
libraries.

See this section of the Quick Start Guide for more information. I will
have a look at the page where you found this and rewrite this section.

http://www.simpol.com/docs/quickstart/over_C_comp.html

Ciao, Neil

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