Re: FMP5 Licencing...

Well that's what has not been tested in the courts...and no software company
wants to go to court...there is already a lot of law in both the US and
Canada on ownership...part of copyright law part not...you buy it you own it
as long as you do not copy it...Lets face it there are no cases of
multi-user license infringements in the courts...the software companies are
advised by there lawyers to settle and avoid court at all times...even
Microsoft has not prosecuted multi-users license infringements, unless it
involves illegal copies...Now I'm not advocating breaking license
agreements, but many of these go well beyond the law...

on 11/13/99 3:25 PM, Rob Marquardt at rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On 11/12/99 6:47 pm, Geof Holman so noted...
> 
>> Interesting,  My solicitor states that most software licenses will not stand
>> up in court, once you OWN the copy of the product is yours to do with what
>> you want.  If you have multi-users on a single user version that's ok...as
>> long as you do not make copies of the software...So you can ignore user
>> licenses, they have no standing law...He also says that software company
>> whos product you are using will just give you and unlimited license to avoid
>> the courts...So us all the middleware you want...
> 
> IANAL, but my understanding was that you never purchased the actual
> software -- you bought a license to *use* the software, and that usage
> was bound by the licensing agreement.
> 
> Rob Marquardt
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