Re: Software 'licensing' <RANT>

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

It was 12 Mar 1997 21:50:49 GMT.  I was reading instead of working.  And Peter 
F Handel  <handel@stolaf.edu> said:

>Christopher D. Heer <cheer@i.hate.spam> wrote:
>: The example in question was a family that owns two computers and installs a 
>: package on both because they couldn't afford two copies.

>This is the way I've always understood the law (and please correct me
>if I'm wrong): It is perfectly fine and legal to buy one copy of a
>program and put it on 2 computers _IF_ you can be 100% sure that only
>one copy of it is running at once.  The moment you run the same
>program on two different computers at once is the moment you're
>breaking the law.

It's a grey area.  Certainly some software licenses permit that and some do 
not, but whether that's realistic under law is another story.  I don't know 
what the case law looks like for this and, not being an attorney, I wouldn't 
begin to guess.
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