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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: copy protection (LONG)
Message-ID: <119@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 11:34:18 EST
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Summary: Licensing Agreements

> Using the same purchased software on two machines (home and work) 
> sure seems like a reasonable use, but it proscribed by the 
> "shrink-wrap" "agreement" on some software, which clearly
> "licenses" the software for use on a particular cpu.

Not necessarily.  Reading from the standard Microsoft License
Agreement, Article 1 specifies use on a single COMPTUTER at a
single location, but Article 4 reads:

"As the LICENSEE, you may physically transfer the SOFTWARE from one
computer to another provided that the SOFTWARE is used on only one
computer at a time..." (The rest of Article 4 is not relevant to
this discussion).  It seems to me that this article specifically
permits the kind of use that was contemplated, at least in the case
of Microsoft.