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From: cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher Chiesa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Troubles with Lattice C, Part I: legal, licensing, upgrade
Keywords: Lattice C legal license upgrade
Message-ID: <3706@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 19 Aug 88 19:32:14 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Greetings.  I recently purchased a used Amiga 1000 from a friend who moved up 
to the 2000.  In a totally separate purchase, another friend and I "went in 
together" on ANOTHER Amiga 1000 with software; this friend kept the computer 
(I had MINE already) and we "divvied up" the software.

As part of this deal, I wound up with an original copy of Lattice C, v3.03.  
I'd like to contact Lattice about upgrading to v4.0 as I hear is possible, but
I would like first to know if I'm going to have trouble vis-a-vis "official"
or "real" ownership.  As I understand it, purchasing the package implies or 
grants (I'm not legalistic, that's why I'm writing here) the purchaser a li-
cense to use the package on ONE machine.  Does this imply serial-number speci-
ficity, or just single-station use on ANY ONE machine?  The problem of course
is that I have, and plan to use, the SOFTWARE, whereas someone else (my friend)
has the actual machine for which this package was originally purchased.  I
need to know if I'm "in the clear" before calling and getting tangled up with
the Powers That Be.  Can anyone clarify this for me?  Is there anything else
I've overlooked, or can STOP WORRYING about?

Thanks in advance. 

Chris Chiesa
  recent graduate, Ball State University, CS Dept.


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