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Re: software licensing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jill Williams)
Thu Nov 11 14:59:24 1993
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 14:35:45 -0500
From: Jill Williams <jill@columbia.edu>
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
Cc:
In-Reply-To: Your message <9311111825.AA13089@spot.CC.Lehigh.EDU> of Thu, 11
Mark Miller asked:
> 2. How do you deal with software licensing? Our site
> licenses for such things as Wordperfect read that they
> are for use on University owned machines. These
> machines are owned by the students, hence alot of our
> site licensing software isn't available on tha lan.
We have found that most big vendors (Microsoft, WordPerfect,
Claris) really mean that the software must be INSTALLED on
a University-owned computer (= our file server). The fact
that students access the servers from personally owned
computers seems fine, as long as we do something about
copy metering and protecting against piracy. (We use
KeyServer.)
Jill Williams
Academic Information Systems
Columbia University
