** On Nov 14, Craig Sanders scribbled:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:08:59PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > ** On Nov 13, Craig Sanders scribbled:
> > > sure it does. the monetary cost of the license is zero dollars,
which is
> > > clearly included in the price you paid for the CD.
> >
> > It must be explicitly put somewhere - either in the distribution
> > itself ("The cost of acquiring the GPL license is US $0.0") or on the
> > receipt of purchase - that's what I was told by somebody fluent in
> > financial matters here.
>
> why? does microsoft issue receipts telling you how much of the purchase
> price is for the license, and how much is for the media & packaging &
> manuals?
Microsoft sells you Win9x with a license to use it only on one machine - and
that's explicitly stated in EULA. For the NT you need to purchase licenses
_explicitly_ - they are a separate "product". The NT server comes with a
license for 2 (AFAIK) connections. Same applies to Novell, for example.
In either case, Micro$loth states that the license is included in the price
of the product they sell (mostly for one person :))