EULA question

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Jim

I have a very heavy workload over the next year and I wish to do some
work from home.

Does the EULA of Visual Studio .NET 2003 permit me to install a copy on
my home PC? I have a valid license through my work and I will be the only
individual using it. There is wording about "copies" in the EULA, but I'm
not sure what it allows.

Thanks,

Jim
 
Hi Jim,

It depends on the license you have. You may want to ask the person who
bought the software for your company about the licensing terms it was bought
under. If they don't know, then the suppliers who your company bought it
from should know. Check out the following page, the Microsoft Licensing
Site, and you'll see it isn't necessarily an easy answer:

http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/default.mspx

Joe
 
Jim wrote:

[EULA question]

I think you're better here:

microsoft.public.vstudio.general

Best regards,

Michael
 
Jim,
Let me muddy the water here a little more:

I had the same question a few years ago that you do now,
and here is the results of my endevors to find the answer:

I talked to our I.S. department and our parent I.S.
department, both of them, assured me that we could do
exactly that: put a copy of any of the MS development
tools on my work machine and my home machine so I could
work at home. This would be alright because we could
garentee that only 1 of the copies would ever be used at
a time.

Now this didn't ring totally true with me and just kind
of kept nagging at me in deep dark recesses of my
concience, so after a month or so, I called MS legal
department. The answer I recieved from them was: "Under
no cercumstances are you authorized to have 2 copies of
the software installed." They further explained that
the "2nd copy", alluded to in the software agreement, is
a backup and maintained as such.

I've about 30 copies out on tape backup, how that works,
I'll leave up to the corporate lawyers because that one
doesn't nag at my concience. But as a result of their
promptings and clarification, I took the software off my
computer at home and basically lived at the office for
following 6 months.

I hope this helps,
Les
 
Jim,
If your development tools come from a MSDN Universal
Subsctiption, then you can install them where ever you
want until you reach the maximun number allowable by your
licenece.
Cheers,
Les
 
Many Microsoft products explicitly allow a second copy on a laptop or
home-use computer. I'm not sure whether this one does, but it should be
easy to find out. Anyhow, this would only be the case if it was an ordinary
commercial copy of it in the first place, and not a site-licensed one. The
site license will have its own terms.

The concept you were quoting of "only one in use at a time" is from the
classic "Borland No-Nonsense License Agreement" (which I highly admire).
 
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