For clarity I need to make you all aware that the following applies ... Personally purchased or licensed software must not be installed on College owned systems and vice versa - thus if college funds purchase the license then it can only be installed on a College owned system - this rule applies for all software. Given that Wolfram are claiming the illegal use was perpetrated by machines which fall into both College owned and personally owned systems then I foresee further issues if someone uses a personally licensed copy of Mathematica from a personal system whilst on the College network and there is no College license in place! Regards Adrian -----Original Message----- From: physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk [mailto:physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Clements Sent: 14 April 2011 11:43 To: Scheel, Stefan Cc: physics-departmental-computing Subject: Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Can we do without Wolfram?, If we lose the ability to get it through College at a discount, Andrew Jaffe will be getting a private copy since he needs Mathematica that much. He runs Macs so the issue of it being on a 'college machine' might be lessened, but if Wolfram are able and considering blocking even private copies on the college network, that is something we should know about and take into account. Dave On 14 Apr 2011, at 11:24, Stefan Scheel wrote:
Wouldn't there also be a problem with installing privately bought software on IC machines?
On 14/04/11 11:23, David Colling wrote:
They couldn't and wouldn't want anyway as the cost of a full license is >£2K
On 13/04/2011 18:40, Dave Clements wrote:
On 13 Apr 2011, at 16:34, David Colling wrote:
Even if college pay the debts Mathematica may refuse to sell us licenses other than a site license at £30K/year - the vast majority of which would fall on physics.
How can they stop people buying licenses for their individual machines on the open market?
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