README.1st

ZCN v1.3 - a free CP/M-like OS for the Amstrad NC100 Notepad & NC200 Notebook.
Copyright (C) 1994-2001 Russell Marks. See `zcn.txt' for license details.

This won't worry most people, but to whom it may concern:

WARNING: COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION OF VDE IS NOT ALLOWED!

Note that commercial distribution of VDE (included in the `support'
directory) is *specifically prohibited* by the author. That is, you
are not allowed to distribute it or distribute it bundled with
anything else (such as ZCN) for profit. Non-profit distribution is
fine. See near the end of `support/vde/vde266.doc' for details.

Thus, any distributions of ZCN sold for any profit at all *MUST NOT
INCLUDE VDE*. (You'd need to remove support/vde.com and all files in
support/vde.) I include VDE in the `official' ZCN distribution as it's
quite a good, zero-cost text editor, even if the licence does kind of
suck a bit. :-/

This is unfortunate, but short of my writing a complete replacement
editor (no chance), or finding another free editor which is as good, I
don't see what else I can do.

If you want to know why I think allowing commercial distribution of
free software can be a Good Thing, see `Why allow commercial
distribution?' in `doc/zcn.txt'.

-Rus.