On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 10:06 +0200, Alexios Zavras wrote:
Daniel Rich wrote [edited]:
[...] If it is on a company asset then the
company has to be the one who legally obtained it, not the user (your
mileage may vary depending on who has the bigger lawyers). This is
(may) be true of software, mp3s, or other copyrighted materials.
As someone who is continents away from US corporate practices,
and constantly marvelling on such information from this list,
I have to ask:
Is it the same case with bringing your own O'Reilly book
to work and have it on a (company) bookshelf ?
I'd assume no, but I am always surprised...
I think the difference is that the software/data is a copy.
A book, would be the original. Unless you copied it, then who ever
has the "copy" is in the wrong.
If you just brought the install media and placed it on your desk, that
would be fine, but as soon as you install a copy onto the company
machine, there are issues.
I think it boils down to the fact that most companies are not willing to
do the tracking to show what software was purchased by who, and so they
get in trouble when a software audit hits and the auditors assume
(deliberatly) that if the company can't immediatly produce a license for
the software that the company pirated it.
if proper documentation is kept to show that there is a legitimate license
for all software that's installed you will survive any audit, but how much
do you trust your users to keep such records?
David Lang
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