riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) (04/29/88)
We are evaluating an AT&T 6386 WSG, one of the new 80386 machines that
is supposed to run multiple DOS sessions under Unix. (We don't know
how well yet because we still haven't received the VP/ix software.)
This raises an interesting and potentially important legal question: if
we intend to run multiple sessions of generic IBM-PC/DOS applications
programs on a 6386, are we obligated to buy multiple copies? Or will a
single copy suffice because we're using a single CPU? Do most license
agreements cover this question, or are we in unexplored territory?
[Please send mail to me and I will summarize; or if you've got something
unique and authoritative to say, please cross-post to misc.legal and
comp.sys.att. Thanks.]
-- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
-- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
-- riddle%woton.uucp@cs.utexas.edu {ihnp4,uunet}!ut-sally!im4u!woton!riddledhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) (04/30/88)
LICENSE AGREEMENT By reading this article, you are agreeing to send me $50,000. 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. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi