Re: [NTLK] NCU license

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 06:45:51 PDT


on 9/18/02 9:32 AM, Rolf Brakvatne at rbrak29_at_qwest.net wrote:

>
> My son uses an eMate in school and wants the school to load NCU on one
> of the school's Macs. The problem being is that I just found out that
> the school system dropped the eMate and removed all Newton SW from
> their systems ( I really doubt they even had any loaded since my son
> was the only one using their eMate in the 5th and 6th grade -- no SW
> was loaded then. After the 6th Grade we bought his current eMate and he
> has used it ever since -- now in the 10th Grade).
>
> Can the school legally load NCU on one PC (not system wide)?
>

Since we can all download it from UNNA, my guess is that there is no
licensing issue. The real issue will likely be that school IT people are
often reluctant to load *anything* on 'their' computers that is outside a
very narrowly specified set. (And not entirely without reason...)

- Eric.

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