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Corporate software licensing

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Halz

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I was just reading the first few lines of a license agreement and saw that it uses the words ?individual or single entity?.. it then occurred to me that corporations are legally viewed as an ?individual?. With that very general view of things, I have to wonder how it is that software licenses, and even support contracts, can be licensed to a corporation, but at the same time, individuals within that corporation.. How much more convoluted can things get when one considers licenses for a ?person? within that corporation..? I can grasp a corporation buying a number of ?seats? for a particular piece of software, but if it was purchased under the corporate name, a legal individual?s name, why then couldn?t ?the company? (of however many people) all use that same piece of software assuming things are not broken down further to licenses per workstation..
 
Originally posted by: Halz
I was just reading the first few lines of a license agreement and saw that it uses the words ?individual or single entity?.. it then occurred to me that corporations are legally viewed as an ?individual?. With that very general view of things, I have to wonder how it is that software licenses, and even support contracts, can be licensed to a corporation, but at the same time, individuals within that corporation.. How much more convoluted can things get when one considers licenses for a ?person? within that corporation..? I can grasp a corporation buying a number of ?seats? for a particular piece of software, but if it was purchased under the corporate name, a legal individual?s name, why then couldn?t ?the company? (of however many people) all use that same piece of software assuming things are not broken down further to licenses per workstation..
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By your logic, I should be able to buy one copy of windows and install it on 37 different PCs as long as they're all mine.
 
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