With the fact that Embarcadero bought the product and is no longer supporting the older versions, there is less concern about licensing. Delphi 5 is so old, that if you have the original license, you should be fine. I still use version 5 and with the license number that came on the CD, I installed my copy with no problems.
The way I understood it, you buy into the Delphi software by paying the full price at some point. Then you purchase upgrades which allow you to use the latest version, but you still can use the older versions. You just can't sell the older versions and still use the latest version at the same time. That violates the idea that you only have one "license" to use Delphi. Tom Nesler -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Smith Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 12:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Delphi-En] Selling my old copy of Delphi 5 Pro and Kylix 3 Yes, I was rather astonished at the prices people were asking. On licensing, you pose an interesting dilemma my friend. Let me ask you this: if that were the case, would I need to have D5 installed to install D6? I never needed D5 again after purchasing D6 - I can't remember if it's an upgrade... With D6, I know it had to contact Borland and ask them to bump up the license count because it wouldn't install, but I don't remember if that's the case w/ D5. If so, would they even be handing out license counts anymore for software this old, now that they've been bought up several times? Dave --- On Tue, 8/17/10, Nesler, Thomas J <[email protected]> wrote: From: Nesler, Thomas J <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [Delphi-En] Selling my old copy of Delphi 5 Pro and Kylix 3 To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 8:38 AM Put it up for auction on EBay. I have been monitoring sales of old Delphi software and they are fetching good prices these days. Having said that, did you upgrade to another version of Delphi? If so, theoretically your older version does not have a license...:-( I always hated that copyright restriction. But if you do not have any versions of Delphi in use and you want to sell Delphi 5 then you are free and clear. Tom Nesler -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Smith Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Delphi-En] Selling my old copy of Delphi 5 Pro and Kylix 3 Anyone interested in these? Embarcadero says D5 "street price" value is around 250$, not sure about Kylix... Dave [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [email protected]! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [email protected]! Groups Links
