OVERVIEW OF LICENSING TERMS FOR GENERAL MIDI TIMBRES

The file entitled FATV10.BNK contains the information that defines General MIDI timbres (piano sound, trumpet sound, etc.) for the Yamaha chip in your sound card.  All timbres in FATV10.BNK are Copyright 1993 The Fat Man, and administered by Fat Labs, Inc.  You may use these timbres in your product provided that you:

1) send $1 per product that contains the timbres (not $1 per shipped box, but a one-time, nominal charge to make our contract binding), 

2) put our credit on screen when sound drivers load and in your paper documentation, 

3) send us a copy of your finished product, and

4) be sure that all software that is distributed by you and that contains the timbres (FATV10.BNK) also contains this notice and our contract (README3.TXT and GENMID-V.TXT) in software and in paper documentation.  This is meant to cover products such as SDK's and OEM drivers that will encourage the incorporation of FATV10.BNK into other products.  End products such as games that do not invite further distribution of FATV10.BNK need not include the .TXT files.

Our credit should read:

"General MIDI timbres for Yamaha OPL-2- and OPL-3-based sound cards were produced by The Fat Man(TM) and developed by K. Weston Phelan and George Alistair Sanger.  Copyright 1993, The Fat Man(TM)"

Please read the contract (attatched file GENMID-V.TXT), sign it and send one per title with your check to:

ATTN:  Mission Control
The Fat Man
7611 Shoal Creek Blvd.
Austin, TX  78757

Updates and copies are available for a nominal licnese fee of $1 from the Fat Farm BBS @ (512) 454-9990




The Fat Man and Fat Labs, Inc. are trade marks of George Alistair Sanger.