[G4] Re: Tiger - single or family license

[keith_w]

Al Poulin wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2006, at 5:15 PM, g4-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com 
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:14:44 -0700
>> From: keith_w <keith_w at dslextreme.com>
>> Subject: Re: [G4] Tiger - single or family license
>> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."
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>> Carol wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Carol wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am thinking of Tiger.
>>>>> Would I need to buy the family license?  I certainly don't have 5
>>>>> computers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Carol
>>
>>>> keith_w wrote:
>>>> No. So long as you don't actually use, or sit at both computers at
>>>> once, your usage is the same as a "single seat."
>>
>>> Are you saying that, legality aside, I could install Tiger from the
>>> single user discs on 2 computers with no problem?
>>>
>>> Carol
>>
>> That's my belief.
>> Think about it.
>> If you had a single user license, and to be absurd about it, you
>> installed it in 10 computers, here and there.
>> Yet, those computers are in fact, never used by anyone but you, which
>> means no other entity benefits from a single seat license, you are, also
>> in fact, adhering to the letter of the multiple use laws.
>>
>> keith

> Carol/Keith:
> 
> I must honestly throw ice water into this discussion.
> 
> Legally, the "single seat" argument does not wash with Apple.  The Apple 
> license terms clearly spells out the rules.  Carol needs either the 
> "family license" or two separate licenses for two computers.  If you buy 
> new boxes, the family license is cheaper than two separate licenses.  If 
> you buy used, possibly you could find two separate license for less than 
> one family license.
> 
> 2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
> A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple 
> Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time. This License does 
> not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a 
> time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network 
> where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.
> 
> Al Poulin

Well, there you go.
Trumped again, this time by apple!

Sorry 'bout that!

Don't do as I say OR do!

And I won't say in public what I DO do...

keith whaley