At 9/21/2015 12:42, you wrote: >Not a lawyer here, but it seems to me that if Karen can get hold of the >license information for the copy she has, she would be considered to >inherit. That is, the original owner is no longer using the program so I >don't think there would be anything illegal, or more important, unethical, >about Karen using the original owner's license. Again, I'm not a lawyer but >that is how I would interpret the situation. Ownership is transferred. As others have said, that is not the case. The fact is that Wholly Genes (even defunct) has always retained _ownership_ of the program. We only buy a _license_ to use it. Licenses are not transferrable to anyone else. Just like you cannot transfer your driver's license to someone else. Lee
Clearly I should never respond off the top of my head on anything that can be readily looked up (I'm at work and do not have TMG on my work computer). Since I don't normally have reason to consult the licensing agreement, my main recollection of it was regarding number of machines one license could be installed on at one time. If I thought Bob Velke was accepting payment for new licenses, I would certainly have recommended that route. On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Lee Hoffman/KY <azchief@bellsouth.net> wrote: > At 9/21/2015 12:42, you wrote: > >> Not a lawyer here, but it seems to me that if Karen can get hold of the >> license information for the copy she has, she would be considered to >> inherit. That is, the original owner is no longer using the program so I >> don't think there would be anything illegal, or more important, unethical, >> about Karen using the original owner's license. Again, I'm not a lawyer >> but >> that is how I would interpret the situation. Ownership is transferred. >> > > As others have said, that is not the case. The fact is that Wholly Genes > (even defunct) has always retained _ownership_ of the program. We only buy > a _license_ to use it. Licenses are not transferrable to anyone else. > Just like you cannot transfer your driver's license to someone else. > > Lee > > -- Karla Huebner calypsospots AT gmail.com