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| Authored by: rcsteiner on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 04:39 PM EDT |
I seem to remember at least one piece of software (a shareware package in the
early 90's) that said precisely that. You could use it like a book, load it on
multiple machines as long as only one copy was in use at a time, etc.
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
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- ah, shareware - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 08:56 PM EDT
- ah, shareware - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 01:27 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 04:54 PM EDT |
Back in 1991, when I purchased Borland Pascal, their
software license said
to treat it "just like a book":
This software is protected by
both United
States copyright law and international copyright treaty
provisions. Therefore, you must treat this software just
like a book, except
that you may copy it onto a computer to
be used and you may make archival
copies of the software for
the sole purpose of backing-up our software and
protecting
your investment from loss.
By saying "just like a book,"
Borland means, for example,
that this software may be used by any number of
people, and
may be freely moved from one computer location to another,
so long
as there is no possibility of it being used at one
location while it's being
used at another or on a computer
network by more than one user at one location.
Just like a
book can't be read by two different people in two different
places
at the same time, neither can the software be used by
two different people in
two different places at the same
time. (Unless, of course, Borland's copyright
has been
violated or the use is on a computer network by up to the
number of
users authorized by additional Borland licenses as
explained below.)
(Reference)
Not only that, their install
disks had no copy
protection. I made the requisite backup copies, applied the
write-protect labels (they were 5.25-inch disks), archived
the originals
disks, and installed it from the copied disks
with no problems at
all.
That's how software licensing should work. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Indeed Borland - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 05:26 PM EDT
- Indeed Borland - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 06:08 PM EDT
- To put succintly - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 06:33 PM EDT
- Indeed Borland - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 02:17 AM EDT
- Thanks - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 05:19 AM EDT
- Lending software on line - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 05:28 AM EDT
- Two ways... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 01:37 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 05:53 AM EDT |
"And another wanted to be indemnified for lawsuit costs by the software
user in case ( as I read it ) lawsuits from third parties arose."
I was once invited to sign up for a web service with a similar clause. There
was no suggestion that the third party would have any connection with me, yet
the company wanted me to indemnify them. Thanks to the efficiency of their
"support" system, I'm pretty certain they never found out why I turned
them down.
I take a small measure of comfort from the fact that said company appears to
have vanished from the face of the Earth.
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