Legal use of VNC

[Kevin Cousins]

David A. Jablonski, "David>", wrote:

David> I am concerned about the legalities of using VNC to give people
David> access to my NT box.  If I let someone run an app like MSWord
David> or Visio on my machine via VNC, am I violating the liscence or
David> copyright for that app?  What if several people connect to my
David> machine throughout the day?  Do I need site-liscenses for all
David> my software even though it is only running for one user at a
David> time on one machine?  Do the same rules apply to Macs and Sun
David> boxes?

David> Just tryin' to stay legal...

Perhaps it's appropriate to ask whether Microsoft's (Apple's, SUN's)
shrink-wrap licences are really legitimate in the first place.

--Kevin, who doesn't like shrink-wrap licences very much.


---------------------------------------------------------------------
The VNC mailing list - see http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------