On Aug 30, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: > > Hi Larry, > > Thanks for your post. > > On 30/08/2011, at 11:49 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote: > >> Mac App store has no restriction, the iTunes app store does. That is what it >> says. This jives with what Steve said and what I've seen bear out. This is >> more about media than apps really which makes a lot of sense. > > > This is sound it looks but I'm not so sure it’s the reality or at least the > future. > > Also from the license: > >> (i) You may download and use an application from the Mac App Store (“Mac App >> Store Product”) for personal, non-commercial use on any Apple-branded >> products running Mac OS X (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control. > > Which sounds good ... until family members want to have their own MAS > accounts or MAS and iTunes accounts merge.
It is not. Note the control/own. It ties the apple id to the application with few restrictions. > > Separately, for commercial use, we have: > >> (ii) If you are a commercial enterprise or educational institution, you may >> download a Mac App Store Product for use by either (a) a single individual >> on each of the Mac Computer(s) used by that individual that you own or >> control or (b) multiple individuals on a single shared Mac Computer that you >> own or control. For example, a single employee may use a Mac App Store >> Product on both the employee’s desktop Mac Computer and laptop Mac Computer, >> or multiple students may serially use a Mac App Store Product on a single >> Mac Computer located at a resource center or library. For the sake of >> clarity, each Mac Computer used serially by multiple users requires a >> separate license. > > Which seems contradictory (in itself)? It firstly says: > > "multiple individuals on a single shared Mac Computer that you own or > control" and "multiple students may serially use a Mac App Store Product on a > single Mac Computer located at a resource center or library" > > but then it says > > "For the sake of clarity" Right! "each Mac Computer used serially by > multiple users requires a separate license." > This is site licensing versus individual licensing which is a common thing in the enterprise. You are over thinking this. This is common in any software. If you are a large corporation and need 4000 copies of an application you need 4k licenses. You are not going to buy one copy legally and just install it everywhere without the licenses. It is becoming an issue because it is a digital download tied to an account which is not something many are used to. If 10 people use a computer you need to own 10 licenses for them to all use it if it is commercial. --Larry_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
