At 06:44 AM 11/18/1997 -0500, Anonymous wrote:
Bill Stewart writes: [...]
For example, a commercial purpose includes the use of the application within a commercial business or facility or the use of the product to provide a service, or in support of service, for which you charge. Commercial purpose also includes use by any government agency or organization. First of all, it sounds like it can only be used by students at non-government-run universities, but not at Berkeley, and if Random MIT Student develops PGPwidget using the toolkit, students at U.C.Berkeley can't use it for academic use either, except perhaps on their PCs at home (if they live off-campus.) (Do any of the UK universities count as non-government-run?)
You consider use by students at U.C.Berkeley to be use by a "government agency or organization". I don't think that is what is meant. They mean something like the NSA, or Congress, or the military.
That may not be what they _intended_, but it's what they said.. They're very explicit that using "within a commercial business or facility" is commercial, and they're including government agencies and organizations. That means if you're using it in a government-owned building, it's commercial from their license's standpoint.
But "within a commercial business or facility" is far more restrictive.
"Within" is probably meant in the organizational sense, not in terms of physical inclusion. The fundamental point is whether revenue generation
If they hadn't explicitly said "facility", that might be a reasonable interpretation, but they've provided carefully crafted language that's pinning down a very broad definition of commercial.
You can't use it to do your work. Your company should buy a copy in that case. Reading your work email counts as part of doing your work.
If they want to go that direction, well, it's their code (mostly.) But it's a much different direction from the previous policies. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com Regular Key PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639