Timeline for Would this be an appropriate space to ask about the use limits of a software license?
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| Jun 13, 2019 at 7:55 | comment | added | TafT | @fixer1234 I am less concerned by what a company intends for the license to mean and more focused on what a company is allowed to restrict. I am not certain you can legally split "commercial" and "personal" in all jurisdictions. Specifically I would care about the UK / EU but it is a wider thing. That is a legal question but one that applies primarily to users of software who tick the accept boxes. | |
| Jun 12, 2019 at 18:23 | comment | added | music2myear | I agree with @fixer1234: Either the license states what is and is not allowed or it doesn't. Either the license is published and available or it isn't. This makes such question "Product or learning material recommendation" questions where we're being asked to find something that is already available. Beyond that is simply interpretation, which is very much opinion and further off-topic. Whatever bucket it falls into, the best place to ask these questions is of the entity that issues or enforces the license: They have the information and the responsibility. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 21:38 | comment | added | fixer1234 | It seems like the type of thing that would invite guessing and opinions more than fact. Do we really want people relying on advice from random users here, rather than asking the company directly about their wording and how they interpret it? | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 21:38 | comment | added | fixer1234 | I'm surprised by the last paragraph and comment. I would have thought interpreting what's allowed by a license would be off-topic. I thought we make exceptions for certain cases, like Windows and open-source, because we have plenty of users who regularly deal with that, or even manage site-level licensing of some of the common applications, so it's available knowledge. But interpreting the license wording on a random application is more of a legal or contract terms issue rather than a technical one. (cont'd) | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 8:27 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | @TafT "Does the licence restrict me from doing x, given that it states y" could well be on topic as it is specific to the software. It is effectively "am I allowed to do this but still receive support from my supplier?" Whether local laws override or otherwise nullify the licence or parts of it would be off topic. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 7:32 | comment | added | TafT | Thank you for answering all the facets of my question. It is what the license allows or forbids that I was most interested in which seems to be a law question more than something for this exchange. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 7:27 | history | answered | MokubaiMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |