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Offline Ilwrath

Re: Answer Truthfully Now...
« on: September 15, 2010, 08:29:26 PM »
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Short answer, yes. Slightly longer one, yes, but entirely legally. I have certain copyrighted software that was not paid for, but use with the vendor's express permission.


Yep, GPL is still a copyright.  I use free, but copyrighted, software all the time.

As for commercial software...  Very rarely would I pirate, anymore.  I suppose there are probably one or two things on my home system, but I try to use properly licensed commercial software when I have to.  (Usually only when a decent GPL version doesn't exist.)
 

Offline Ilwrath

Re: Answer Truthfully Now...
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2010, 10:06:05 PM »
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I buy all my modern software but most of the old games and stuff from platforms I emulate isn't really readily available new anymore. Have you noticed that sometimes used software isn't legal to sell to another user.


Well, that is a different situation, really.  I mean, just emulating the platform probably isn't exactly legal in the US.  Let alone negotiating licenses for stuff that has no clear owner, anymore.

I was going more by the spirit of "Current software versions on a current primary work system."  

If you were to go through my entire collection of software and data dating back almost 30 years during which time I was various levels of student and/or starving, it would be a very different story.  :lol:

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The only time I've stretched the rules in modern times is when I buy a piece of software that I only use one place at a time but want it on two machines and that's rare.


Yeah, that is a sticky one, isn't it?  The one or two copies over license for convenience of having it in two places not to be concurrently used.  BSA would call it a problem.  Me, probably not so much.