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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Single-DOS-user software licenses on multi-DOS-user '386 machines?
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Date: 29 Apr 88 19:26:03 GMT
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In article <1053@woton.UUCP> riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) writes:
>...if
>we intend to run multiple sessions of generic IBM-PC/DOS applications
>programs on a 6386, are we obligated to buy multiple copies?
>...Do most license
>agreements cover this question, or are we in unexplored territory? 

Software license agreements for microcomputers (the shrink-wrap type)
have no legal validity that anybody has ever found in case law.
Copyright law applies, and I suspect that copyright law says nothing
about multiple sessions.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi