AUGD: Legal-ish question for the list
AUGD: Legal-ish question for the list
- Subject: AUGD: Legal-ish question for the list
- From: David Feng <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 22:39:11 +0800
Greetings all,
We at BeiMac (the Beijing Macintosh User Group) sometimes have a few
people writing that their Mac is in trouble and that they don't have
system CDs or DVDs on hand. Software licenses are a touchy issue
here; this is in particular the case in China, where reports from
places afar cite piracy rampant at 97%.
First off, anyone caught with pirated software at a BeiMac meeting is
booted out immediately and can face a blacklist ban of a few months
if the whole thing gets out of hand. We're "famous" so to speak in
regards to our tough anti-software piracy rule. The ban applies if
they're caught opening an app contained crack serial numbers or
connecting to a warez server, too. Pleased to report that nobody has
been booted out yet... and yes, I do keep a close eye on what they're
doing...
Now - back to the question: do you think this would count as legal
software use? (See below.)
John Doe writes to us and says he needs to reinstall Tiger. He
doesn't have his CDs on hand (he left them in America while
travelling to China). I write back asking him if he can confirm that
the Mac OS software he has is under a legal license. John says yes,
and I offer to install the software for him.
My viewpoint here is: John bought the software license which enabled
him to use the software in the very first place. That in itself
should make him "legal" to install OS X. The issue at here is just
which CD is to be used for reinstalling the software.
By the way, John in the example here doesn't get to keep the CD, and
we keep close watch on him - he can't copy the CD either.
Would like to hear how you folks think of this. The absolute last
thing we want to be is a haven for software pirates, believe me.
Thanks in advance! :-)
Regards,
David Feng
BeiMac, Beijing
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Augd mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden