From: rick@SJSUMCS.SJSU.EDU (Richard Warner)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Subject: Re: Novell Licensing and Copyright etc...
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:25:33 GMT
Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
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              "Fund@RELAY.PROTEON.COM" at Nov 11, 92 10:15 pm

> >   Since I have purchased a 20 user license, 10 of which are in use
> >and I have ordered a 250 user license of which about 50 will be immediatly
 used
> >I feel I would be adhering to the spirit of the license agreement if I used
> >my existing 20 user copy to set up a temporary server for testing and
> >trouble-shooting when I in fact would be in violation of the license
> >agreement if I did this.
>
>    The spirit of the license and the real license state that you have bought
>    up to a certain maximum number of concurrent users on a single server.
>
>    There is no ambiguity there.
>
> >  In another instance:  When I order my 250 user license through the
 beuracracy
> >of state government it might take 2 months for me to get it.  It would be
> >nice to go ahead and install a new server from my existing copy to
> >get up and running while I wait for the paperwork to make it legal.
>
>      Nice, perhaps.  Illegal, most definitely.
>
>    I bet if I tried to set up a second server with the same copy of Netware
> I would get nasty messages about Copyright violations or serial numbers
> or something.
>
>    Worse than that.  Every station on both of the offending servers would
>    receive a broadcast message every 30 seconds or so, stating that
>    a duplicate server has been found, contact your administrator.
>
>    The servers do not crash, but they might as well with all of this
>    garbage flowing to everyone.
>
> >Bob Grogan                       INTERNET: BGROGAN@GSVMS3.CC.GASOU.EDU

One way I found around this problem was to work with our Novell rep.  or
VAR.  At my previous job we ran into this all the time.  But we worked
out deals with either Novell or our VAR (depending on the circumstance) to
get a loaner copy of the software for our purposes.  It helped that we
were a very large site, but we usually had no problem since we always
bargained with them in good faith (i.e., we always held up our end of
the bargain).


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