Re: AUGD: Legal-ish question for the list
Re: AUGD: Legal-ish question for the list
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Legal-ish question for the list
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:50:33 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
>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%.
>
>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.
>
If you do this you have violated the terms of your license. You would be the guilty party. You would need permission from Apple, Inc before you are legal.
Sorry, but this is a way for people to pirate software and have it appear that someone else is pirating. It would be your license that got spread all over, should this requester not be very honest with you.
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