Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> squawked out on Tuesday 30-Aug-2011@10:07:09 > 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. > > 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:
It says that the license for commercial or education users is either a ‘seat’ license or a ‘user’ license. So, if I have 10 macs in my office, I need to buy Lion for all 10 of them. If I have one developer who buys BBEdit from the Mac App store, he can run it on any of the ten Macs on a single license. If someone else wants to run BBEdit too, they need to buy a separate license. > is where we are heading generally for home use as well, i.e. every family > member will have to purchase a copy (of apps or music) for themselves but may > use those purchase on any number of devices they use (and a device will be > strongly associated with a user) I would consider that every computer and iOS device in the house, regardless of who it ’belongs’ too is a device that *I* own or control. >> (iii) Use may require sign-in with the Apple ID used to download the Mac App >> Store Product from the Mac App Store. > > This seems a bit strange, suggesting perhaps you may have to subsequently > sign-in with the Apple ID used to download the Mac App Store product, I hope > just for updates not for use etc. Yes. If you buy Xcode on Machine And then copy the installer to Machine B and run it, Machine B will ask you to login to the account you used to buy Xcode. > I wish Apple would be more open and clear about all of this. It is clear, but it’s legally-clear, not human-clear. For legalese, it’s pretty understandable, but it is still mud. -- Friction can be a real drag. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
