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From: scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NextStep 2.0
Message-ID: <SCOTT.91Feb18145416@erick.gac.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 20:54:16 GMT
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In article <1991Feb18.202925.26747@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> lang@panews writes:
   In article <1991Feb17.152339.7078@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wor.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) writes:
   >In article <1991Feb17.113832.2803@santra.uucp> jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
   >I have NS2.0 Extended on Optical Disk. If someone can check the
   >legaltity issue and get back to me, I will be more than willing to
   >sell to disk to whomever makes me the first unrefusable offer.

   Don't.  When you purchase "NextStep" you are legally purchasing a
   license to use the software.  You don't own the software, the copy of
   it, or the medium on which it was delivered.  It is possible, under some
   license agreements (I can't speak for NeXT's), to transfer ownership of
   the license to use the software, but once you transfer it you no longer
   have it.  In other words, you cannot sell the disk or a copy of it,
   since you don't own them; all you can sell, if permitted by the license
   agreement, is the right to use the software--and once you transfer that
   right to somebody else, you no longer have it.

My understanding of the license is that those who have purchased the
new machines are automagically licensed for 2.0 - they have to be,
as the new machines cannot run 1.0.  [I'm not sure where upgrades
fall, though.]  So, you can loan out your disk/network connection
for people who want to snarf parts of Extended, provided that they
already have the Standard release.

The fuzzy part is wrt upgrades (and cubes which retain the '030,
of course).  These will require at the least a purchase of the
license (the one without included media).  I believe that the
license itself can only be purchased at institutions which have
purchased a media/license combination, though.

When it comes down to it, you pay $xx for the license, and $yy
for the media it's on.  Presumably, you could sell the media for
$yy to some third party, but I would certainly not want to be the
first to try it.  I would recommend calling up your NeXT rep,
or NeXT itself, and asking them.  I'd be surprised if anyone got
taken to court over something like this (is sort of hard to catch,
after all), but I'd not take my chances for $200-odd dollars
(for a $3500-$10,000 machine, at that).  Just consider the amount
of questionable material on comp.sys.next (this post included,
I'm sure), and just pretend the idea never occurred . . . :-).
If I were a lawyer, I probably wouldn't read this . . .

Later,
--
scott hess                      scott@gac.edu
Independent NeXT Developer	GAC Undergrad
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