I mentioned before that we have a license agreement with our users . Upon to this agreement, we didn't sell anything to our users, instead we got our user to use our package (software with data) in single machine (personally). If you want I can send you our license agreement.
> > Buying a > > software means you are getting license to use this software as it is. There > > is no license for presenting this software on the web. > > But we are not talking about software here. Information is different > from software. It really depends on how you define software. Is an MS > Word document software? When you are talking about MS Word document, you mean a document that you wrote before. Is it possible to use MS Word Spell Checker in your website? If you check the license agreement of MS word, you can see that you have no permission to use this part of MS Word except in this software. > And of course, buying a piece of software does not necessarily mean that > "you are getting license to use this software as it is". It depends very > different things depending on the license. I won't go into details, as > this is off-topic. I agree with you . when you buy a software you should check the License Agreement . You have permission based on License Agreement and if you don't accept this agreement , you are not allowed to install and use this software. When you install this software , it means you agree with License Agreement . Anyway, I think , License Agreement is the most important piece of a package or software. So let me talk about special software and analyzing the License Agreement of that software. Regards, Ebadat A.R. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ebadat A.R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Behdad Esfahbod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Persian Computing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 2004/03/03 09:04 PM Subject: Re: Dictionaries on the web > On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 12:32, Ebadat A.R. wrote: > > Hi, > > I think putting Dictionaries on the web needs a special license . > > What about putting dictionaries in a public library? Is this not the > same issue? What is the difference between a physical copy in a very > crowded libary and a web service? > > I am trying to list some (with differing opinions in parentheses): > > 1) In a library, only one person can use the dictionary at a certain > moment; in other words, word lookups can't happen simultaneously, and > should happen by some delay. (But that is also true about the online > dictionary: the CPU can only serve one request at a certain time. The > two users will definitely have some difference on when they get the info > if they request it at the same time.) > > 2) In a library, there is a physical presence requirement. (How is that > supposed to be important? Does that also mean you may put such a > software on your intranet but not the internet? If yes, what is the > exact legal difference?) > > 3) A library is an old notion, by selling a paper copy of the > dictionary, the copyright holder knows the maximum possible extent how > it may get shared in a library previously, but it's another scenario > when you put the information online. (I can't find anything against > that.) > > > Buying a > > software means you are getting license to use this software as it is. There > > is no license for presenting this software on the web. > > But we are not talking about software here. Information is different > from software. It really depends on how you define software. Is an MS > Word document software? > > And of course, buying a piece of software does not necessarily mean that > "you are getting license to use this software as it is". It depends very > different things depending on the license. I won't go into details, as > this is off-topic. > > roozbeh > > _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
