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: "Rodti MacLeary" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:28:05 +0100 (BST)
- Importance: Normal
David Feng wrote:
> What I'm trying to do here is to balance the interests between:
>
> 1. John Doe (in our example), the guy stuck without an OS X install
> CD, who needs an install CD;
> 2. Apple, Inc.;
This has piqued my interest as it seems to be the exact opposite of the
situation where a user has a Windows licence but not a CD. If I recall
correctly a Windows XP (for example) licence is actually the Certificate
of Authenticity which contains your Product Key, whether that is attached
to the PC itself in the case of OEM hardware or on a separate piece of
paper in the Windows XP box. It doesn't matter which set of install discs
you use, as long as you hold a valid key.
Of course, Apple don't use product keys for OS X. From what I'm reading
here, if I had two retail copies of Tiger on two PPC eMacs (as there is no
retail version of Intel for Tiger), still had the boxes and all supporting
literature for both copies, but had lost one of the physical install DVDs,
it looks like I would be breaking the EULA by using the remaining DVD to
reinstall Tiger on the other machine. Surely that can't be right!
Naturally I could understand if I lost _all_ of the Tiger materials for
one machine then I'd be on fairly shaky territory, and I wouldn't dream of
using my Tiger DVD to install on someone else's machine if they had no
proof of purchase, but if they showed me an empty Tiger box with a EULA I
don't see why this should be a problem.
r.
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