Re: Software 'licensing' <RANT>

[GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat)]

In <5gddtn$9cr@catapult.gatech.edu> eefacdk@acmey.gatech.edu writes:

[massive snip snap]
> you can give away the license, then you can give it to somebody
> else while they use it, and they'll give it back when they're
> done.  At all times, the owner of the license was using his
> program in accordance with the license, or at least those parts

This is not true. You can actually give the software to others (i.e. the
"right" to use it), but then you must remove asll copies on your system and get
some form of proof of purchase. This seems to be unnecessary administrative
stuff, but it is absolutely required because it makes license transfers so
cumbersome you won't give it to others for a short time.

- henrik