Gen (leonine) license bug fixes and Max 8

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Arabrab

When I bought Max 7, this was a gen license:

/*******************************************************************************************************************
Copyright (c) 2012 Cycling '74

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software
and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction,
including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies
or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE
OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
*******************************************************************************************************************/

A few months later, without prior notice Cycling74 converted it into this:

/*******************************************************************************************************************Cycling '74 License for Max-Generated Code for ExportCopyright (c) 2016 Cycling '74The code that Max generates automatically and that end users are capable of exporting and using, and any associated documentation files (the “Software”) is a work of authorship for which Cycling '74 is the author and owner for copyright purposes. A license is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the Software (“Licensee”) to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, and distribute copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:The Software is licensed to Licensee only for non-commercial use. Users who wish to make commercial use of the Software must contact the copyright owner to determine if a license for commercial use is available, and the terms and conditions for same, which may include fees or royalties. For commercial use, please send inquiries to licensing@cycling74.com. The determination of whether a use is commercial use or non-commercial use is based upon the use, not the user. The Software may be used by individuals, institutions, governments, corporations, or other business whether for-profit or non-profit so long as the use itself is not a commercialization of the materials or a use that generates or is intended to generate income, revenue, sales or profit.The above copyright notice and this license shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.*******************************************************************************************************************/

Some of the post-release fixes with the first license:

  • Gen codebox: fixed command + click crash in unlocked patcher

  • codebox: Fixed autocompile

¿Do not use the versions subsequent to 7.2.5 and subsequent for not agreeing with that license change and therefore coexisting with the bugs, does not imply an implicit punishment to the user, by the company that decided to impose a surprise , arbitrary license change, surreptitiously in the middle of support updates a version?

On the other hand it is possible that in the next version (8). Cycling74 publish this kind of things from the beginning to avoid misunderstandings?

: )

Thanks