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In article <1992Dec30.163458.23838@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>,
GOLD@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Gold Michael) wrote:

> I am in charge of maintaining a rather small network of 11 Mac II VI and a
> Quadra 960 Fileserver. As i was know it works quite well on
> Novell-Netware-Servers with DOS machines I thought it would be a good idea
> to place all software packages on the server and make them available for
> any user. We are using
> 
> Aldus Persuasion 2.1 (2 Licences)
> Aldus Freehand 3.1 (2 L.)
> Microsoft Word 5 (5)
> Filemaker Pro (5)
> Statview 4 (2)

> Michael Gold (gold@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de)

Keyserver from Sassafras Software solves this problem perfectly ...
from a technical and moral/ethical standpoint.  Keyserver will allow you to
run as many copies as you have licenses for, and it will keep your users
from walking off with "free" copies for personal use. Sounds great, right?

Unfortunately, *legally* the license agreements from Aldus and other
companies do not OK installing keyserver-protected applications on
a server.

You will find language in many licenses (such as those of Aldus)
that states that the software may not be installed on a server,
or "networked" (whatever that means!).

There is also usually language which states that you may not modify
the program, which means that installing keysever protection (or for that
matter, even installing other resources, like fonts, in the program)
is a violation of the language of the license agreement.

Summary: Keyserver works great; Aldus' license language stinks.

Jim Bradley, UC Berkeley