Do's and don'ts of redistributing the Renoise demo?

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to ask this in public.

Hopefully taktik responds :slight_smile:

fwiw I don’t think there’s any real friction in telling someone to download the demo, but I get where you’re coming from.

One of the useful things about asking something in public, even if the answer ends up seeming obvious in retrospect, is that it gets me (and maybe otehrs) to think things through more thoroughly, and to consider things that may not have otherwiseoccurredto me.

For example, I’m now giving more thought to the pros/cons of just telling people to go download the demo.

It does make certain things simpler (e.g there’s no issue with me selling a product that instructs people to follow a link).

Why would redestributing the demo installer be seen as a bad thing? Not that long ago every music magazine would come with a cover cd packed with demo versions of software and that was considered part of the programme’s promotion efforts. I always thought that the sheer idea of a demo version is to distribute it as widely as possible.