Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha!aunro!alberta!mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA!Junior_Physicist From: userRPCP@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Junior Physicist) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Help: MS-DOS FORTRAN Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 91 20:26:19 GMT References: <10328.286746c7@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1991Jun26.130615.20595@cs.dal.ca> <677@equinox.unr.edu> Organization: MTS Univ of Alberta Lines: 20 In article <677@equinox.unr.edu>, lsmith@unssun.nevada.edu (The Master) writes: > > Suppose I buy a used computer, and the hard disk is loaded with >software. W.P., Lotus, DB4, all the goodies... The original owner >bought the software and a license to install it on his computer. >So the software is legal, right? Now he sells the computer. Does >the software license transfer along with the computer and software, >or does it stay with the original owner, who kept the floppies but >does not now have a computer? > From what I know of software licenses, as long as the original disks and the documentation are transferred with the computer, the software license goes along with it. It seems to me that the software license stays with the original disks. Any comments from others more in the know on this than me? I'm hardly a reader of software licenses. Eugene Mah, Junior Physicist INTERNET: userRPCP@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca BITNET: userRPCP@ualtamts