phil@waikato.ac.nz (11/09/90)
In article <5996@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes: >> What you do is use ResEdit , then GetInfo about a file, >> and set the SHARED bit. Now the file can be opened by more than >> one person. > > What legal issues are involved with using this solution? Purchasing one > copy, storing it on the server, and then (via the Shared bit) letting more > than one person use it simultaneously seems like it would violate the > single-user license that most software has. > > Would this be legal if one purchased as many copies as there could be > simultaneous users? > We purchase *licences* for as many as we want people using an application simultaneously. Sometimes this is as many Macs as we have, often a lot less. We have software to make sure that only up to the desired number can use the application simultaneously. -- Phil Etheridge (phil@waikato.ac.nz) /\ /\ -+-,--, .--, ._ Computer Services/Mathematics & Statistics / \/ \ / /--< /-- / University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ. / \/ /__.) \_ /