Unless it is explicitly permitted in the language of the legal mumbo-jumbo page that we all scroll past in the install process so that we can click on "I Agree" without reading, then you cannot.
However, if my memory serves me correctly, the last time I installed Finale 2005 on my machine, I had 30 or 60 days to register or printing and save functions stopped working. Richard Bartkus > > From: Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/06/27 Mon AM 11:15:13 EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Finale] Plug-ins and Vintage. > > > On Jun 27, 2005, at 7:14 AM, dhbailey wrote: > > > Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > > >> Isn't this just plain illegal? Since I assume you only once bought > >> Finale full, and then bought upgrades, you still only have one serial > >> number. Although you are obviously permitted to run as many different > >> versions of Finale as you own, I doubt very much that you can give > >> away an early version of Finale without a separate serial number. > >> Johannes > > > > Sharing it with another Finale user who ALSO has a legally purchased > > license wouldn't be illegal. That person has paid for and is > > legitimately allowed to use Finale, too. > > > > Besides, the offer was for someone who was interested in having the > > earlier version for historical interest. I doubt anybody on this list > > is actually interested in beginning to work with such an earlier > > version. > > > > But the legality of one licensed owner sharing the original disks from > > an earlier version with another licensed owner shouldn't be an issue. > > > > Now if Andrew were to give them to someone who isn't already a user, > > THAT would be illegal, but it's also something I'm sure Andrew > > wouldn't even consider doing. > > > > Boy do I have mixed feelings on this. First of all, for what it may be > worth, way back when I upgraded from 2.0.1 to 2.5, I asked Coda whether > I could give my copy of 2.0.1 to a charitable organization, and they > said sure. > > However, regardless of that anecdote I must say that to me the > (hypothetical) value of a piece of software as an antique is totally > unrelated to its original value as a productive item. If one of the > folks on this list, for example, were to take their original Finale 1.0 > diskette, stick it in liquid nitrogen to preserve it, and later sell it > to a museum, I would regard that as, quite literally, none of > MakeMusic's business, regardless of what the law might say. > > If a (once again hypothetical) collector of antique software who had > not previously owned any version of Finale, wanted to add my copy of > FinMac 2.6.3 to their collection, I would donate it without a second's > thought. > > I have no idea what the law says on these matters. Morally, I have no > question on this issue at all. None. > > Now, if the gift shoppe at the Smithsonian Collection of Historical > Software were to start selling decorative pages of Finale 1.0-generated > music, with those quaint, arched slurs, that *might* be a different > matter. Maybe. > > Andrew Stiller > Kallisti Music Press > http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
