[OT] EULA and legality

[Lynn Fredricks]

That old EULA means that you license the materials that are ON the disk, not
that Apple is licensing the disk itself to you. License you a disk? They'd
probably make you take out an insurance policy on it if you did ;-)

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
President
Paradigma Software
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Kay C Lan
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 7:38 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: [OT] EULA and legality
> 
> Good point Mark.
> 
> Looking at my Snow Leopard EULA (as it differs from current 
> EULAs) it says:
> 
> 1 General. The software... are licensed, not sold, to you... 
> You own the media on which the Apple Software is recorded...
> 
> So I guess Richmond you are free to use the DVD for lighting 
> a fire, throwing at the cat, whilst either in the bath or 
> standing on your head ;-)
> 
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Mark Wieder 
> <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:
> 
> > Richmond-
> >
> > Friday, September 7, 2012, 11:55:01 AM, you wrote:
> >
> > > I am running software I own
> >
> > Really?
> > Didn't actually read that EULA, did you?
> >
> > "1. General. The Apple software, tools, utilities, sample 
> or example 
> > code, documentation, interfaces, content, data, and other materials 
> > accompanying this License, whether on disk, print or electronic 
> > documentation, in read only memory, or any other media or 
> in any other 
> > form, (collectively, the "Developer Software") are 
> licensed, not sold, 
> > to you by Apple Inc. ("Apple") for use only under the terms of this 
> > License."
> >
> > --
> > -Mark Wieder
> >  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
> >
> >
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