Question to do with software laws.......

[Hector Medina]

Hello All,

I have a friend who has a Norton Firewall and I he dosen't think he could lend it to me because of copyright violations.

Is it OK for him to lend it to me so I could use it and save some money?
Or would we possibly get in trouble?


God Bless,

Hector

 

[seebs]

It is unlikely that you'd get caught, but yes, that would be violating the license agreement on the software. The idea is, you buy a license for each copy of the software that will be in use. One on your computer, one on his computer, that's two copies - so somewhere in there, Symantec should get to sell two copies.

It's a lot like books. When a friend lends you a book, while you're borrowing it, *he doesn't have it*.

 

[mac_philo]

What you are proposing is stealing. Norton Anti-Virus is copyrighted.

There are freely distributable antivirus programs. I think one is called AVG. A bit of searching on www.google.com for 'free anti virus software' (or similar) will get you what you need. These programs offer updates, etc.

EDIT: AVG is available at www.grisoft.com.

 

[Deadroth]

You'd need to buy your own license.

Just remember , you don't buy the program. You buy a license to use a copy - the stuff you buy in the stores is actually a license with a copy thrown in.

 

[HesMyAll]

6th February 2003 at 10:47 AM Hector Medina said this in Post #1

Hello All,

I have a friend who has a Norton Firewall and I he dosen't think he could lend it to me because of copyright violations.

Is it OK for him to lend it to me so I could use it and save some money?
Or would we possibly get in trouble?


God Bless,

Hector

If you need a firewall, Zone Labs has a very good one called Zone Alarm and its free.  There are a few other free firewalls also.  Using your friend's would be illegal.