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From: seitz@netcom.COM (Matthew Seitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Cnvrt MS-DOS 5.0 from 3.5 to 5.25 HELP
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.205612.15789@netcom.COM>
Date: 18 Jun 91 20:56:12 GMT
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In article <1991Jun18.173750.27162@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir) writes:
>In article <1991Jun18.165023.18490@world.std.com> brigc@world.std.com (Brig C McCoy) writes:
>>
>>Not to rain on your parade, but ain't it illegal to copy commercial software?
>No!  But sometimes it's illegal to copy for use on more than one computer at a
>time.  If he is only using one copy at a time, then his use is 100% legitimate.
>Unless he is not the only one using his computer, he would have to make a REAL
>effort to USE two copies of DOS at the SAME TIME (One for each hand?).
>Besides, nobody will care, if it's for personal use.  And you should ALWAYS
>make a backup, ESPECIALLY OF DOS!!!!
>
>No; I didn't say you can sell your backups of DOS to others :-)
>
Actually, this depends on your license agreement.  Some license agreements
restrict usage to one CPU period.  If you want to use the software at work
and at home, you have to buy two copies of the software.  However this is true
only if your license explicitly restricts this.

Without such an explicit restriction, it is OK to take your floppy disk from
home to work and use the program on both machines.

Somewhat ambiguous in my eyes is whether, in the absence of any explicit
restriction, you can install a copy on your work computer hard disk and on your
home computer hard disk.

Since this is moving away from IBM PC issues into general computer-legal issues,
we should probably continue this thread in another group.  Any idea which would
be appropriate?

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