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> but cannot reclaim expenses for it How is that a valid condition (legally)? If you bought a programming book on your Kindle, Amazon would have no legal groun

by detst 14y ago

> but cannot reclaim expenses for it How is that a valid condition (legally)? If you bought a programming book on your Kindle, Amazon would have no legal ground to prohibit your company from reimbursing you.

bryanlarsen 14y ago
There's no legal grounds for prohibiting reimbursing you, but there's lots of grounds for revoking your license if you violate the terms of the license. It's actually a valid scenario. Suppose you want to evaluate IDEA for your company but need more than 30 days. You could buy the personal edition and use it. After your evaluation is done, the company reimburses you. If you liked it, presumably your company bought a site license at the same time which you can use instead. If you didn't just stop using it.
- detst 14y ago
  I understand that it would circumvent their price discrimination strategy but that doesn't mean they can put whatever they want in there. I don't begrudge them extracting as much value out of the market as they can but I just don't understand the basis for revoking a license in this case. As long as the other terms and conditions are met, and if the license were revoked, would their be legal recourse for the license holder (I know this is getting ridiculous but I'm wondering)? I would think it would be found a valid use of the license, but IANAL. BTW, I have no interest in doing this; I'm just curious.
josephlord 14y ago
Well the terms are that you are licensing the software and if you breach the terms I would assume that the license is invalidated. However in reality they will never know although you know you are infringing their copyright. I generally hate non open source software licenses but this area of the terms doesn't seem overly unreasonable to me as they are offering a discount from the normal price for individuals but without extending it to the (usually) less price sensitive companies.

by detst 14y ago

bryanlarsen 14y ago

There's no legal grounds for prohibiting reimbursing you, but there's lots of grounds for revoking your license if you violate the terms of the license. It's actually a valid scenario. Suppose you want to evaluate IDEA for your company but need more than 30 days. You could buy the personal edition and use it. After your evaluation is done, the company reimburses you. If you liked it, presumably your company bought a site license at the same time which you can use instead. If you didn't just stop using it.

detst 14y ago
I understand that it would circumvent their price discrimination strategy but that doesn't mean they can put whatever they want in there. I don't begrudge them extracting as much value out of the market as they can but I just don't understand the basis for revoking a license in this case. As long as the other terms and conditions are met, and if the license were revoked, would their be legal recourse for the license holder (I know this is getting ridiculous but I'm wondering)? I would think it would be found a valid use of the license, but IANAL. BTW, I have no interest in doing this; I'm just curious.

josephlord 14y ago

Well the terms are that you are licensing the software and if you breach the terms I would assume that the license is invalidated. However in reality they will never know although you know you are infringing their copyright. I generally hate non open source software licenses but this area of the terms doesn't seem overly unreasonable to me as they are offering a discount from the normal price for individuals but without extending it to the (usually) less price sensitive companies.