[fooshead]

My friends and I want to purchase a 5-pack of Tiger together. Each of us, however, want the set of disks or have a backup copy of the disks for each user. 1.) Has anyone ever done this and will it work and 2.) Does Apple care whether the 5-pack is split among friends, family, or co-workers?

[mdc]

follow these instructions

[CatOne]

Originally Posted by fooshead

My friends and I want to purchase a 5-pack of Tiger together. Each of us, however, want the set of disks or have a backup copy of the disks for each user. 1.) Has anyone ever done this and will it work and 2.) Does Apple care whether the 5-pack is split among friends, family, or co-workers?

The "5-pack" is a family license. It specifically says it is for use among members of a household. This would specifically exclude you and your friends buying it, and splitting the costs 5 ways.

There is no copy protection on the Tiger DVD, but you would be breaking the license agreement.

[Angus_D]

Apple Computer, Inc.
Mac OS X Family Pack

ADDENDUM to Software License Agreement for Mac OS X

The first and second sentences of Section 2A of the Software License Agreement for Mac OS X are revised as follows:

A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household. By "household" we mean a person or persons who share the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home or condominium, but shall also extend to student members who are primary residents of that household but residing at a separate on-campus location. This license does not extend to business or commercial users.

The remainder of this Section 2 and all other terms and conditions of this Agreement remain in full force and effect.

[Millennium]

Unless you're all roommates, splitting this with your friends would violate the license.

Legally you are allowed to make one copy of your Tiger DVDs, for backup purposes. You may not give this backup copy to anyone else unless you also give them the originals, and if you do this then you must immediately uninstall Tiger (unless you have some other license to use it, such as by buying another copy). In the case of the Family Pack you may give the disk to someone else in your 'family' -that is, people sharing your same household- but if you give it to someone outside your family then the rule kicks in, and your whole family has to deinstall Tiger (again, unless you've got other licenses). If someone in the family moves out, then either they lose the license (and thus have to either buy another license or uninstall Tiger) or take the entire license with them (meaning everyone who stays behind has to buy another license or uninstall); they cannot simply take one "person-license". The only exception to this is that if someone goes off to school but still identifies as part of that family then he can take one person-license with him, but this cannot be given to anyone else.

Is this messed up? Yes, it is. Welcome to the world of software licensing. Calling it a 'family pack' may have been a poor move on Apple's part, though I understand why they would want to use such friendly-sounding terms. Calling it a 'household license' would have been more accurate.

[The Godfather]

If legal marriages were legal, this huge loophole in the definition of "family" would be cleanly closed. Apple doesn't want to alienate their rainbow market.

[fooshead]

Originally Posted by mdc

follow these instructions

Thx mdc.

[Angus_D]

Originally Posted by The Godfather

If legal marriages were legal, this huge loophole in the definition of "family" would be cleanly closed. Apple doesn't want to alienate their rainbow market.

Kids? Biological or adopted? Cohabiting but unmarried?

It's not all part of a big homosexual conspiracy, you know.