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Henry Bremridge wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:00:20PM +0000, Julian Hall wrote: > >> I've just had another thought. Where does this £120,000 go? >> > > The BSA seems to go for: > - Actual damages (ie make the company buy full licensed software) > - Costs (ie the more you fight, the harder they prosecute and the more you pay IF > you lose) > > Problems would come if eg > > - one license was bought for use on one computer > - No one read the license agreement > - 3 other people then used the software very occasionally on their computers eg > when the main user was on holiday > > Would this mean that they would have to buy 3 more licenses? > > > All my computers here are legally licensed, they all run some Linux distro :) Paul -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html