Hi There!

Can someone please explain to me what does this clause of Not using the software for commercial software hosting services imply? Sample EULA text from MS GAX/GAT installs is qouted inline 

The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives you some rights to use the software. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement. In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways. You may not

use the software for commercial software hosting services.

Does this above commerical s/w hosting services clause restricts me in any way to use tools like GAX/GAT etc based .Net smart / Web client software factory applications for developing commercial applications which I intend to put on a website?

Or if you could point me to appropriate location where such queries can be answered, that would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Gaurav.

www.anurakti.com

higaurav:

Can someone please explain to me what does this clause of Not using the software for commercial software hosting services imply?

Sure.  Your lawyer.  Or their lawyer.

Jeff

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Sure.  Your lawyer.  Or their lawyer.

Jeff

Thanks Jeff for the ENLIGHTENING answer. :-) .

On the contrary it is precisely for the reason that "I don't want to get into the Lawyer cycle" did I post the query to the fellow community. For possibly someone on the Forum who might have come across similar situation and could "genuinely" answer the query. Or as also pointed out by you for someone from MS team on the forum who could explain what is exactly meant by the same for better understanding of the clause.

NOTE: the response is not supposed to be in anyway legally binding for people, who might have given a serious thought to it. But it is just that I want to have a better understanding of what exactly is implied by the clause.

Looking forward to a better response.

Thanks in advance!

Gaurav.

But any non-lawyer will give you a non-qualified answer. You react on it, and get into deep problems and - that is your problem. A bad answer is worse than no answer.

Ask you lawyer.

There are a number of products with a similar EULA, and IN GENERAL, Microsoft excludes commercial hosters from using the software because they have a different licensing process to go through.  Normally this does not apply to someone putting software out for download, but does apply to SAS operations, hosting companies and component devleopers that develop for commercial hosting (Plesk, etc.)

But, if you get sued, it's nobody's fault but your own.

Jeff

By the way, you can always call the Microsoft licensing folks, tell them what you plan to do and ask if the license allows it or if there is a different license you need.

Jeff

I've been trying to get in touch with appropriate Lawyer, but it seems that its more of a specialized case (and not many are available in this part of the world for such issues). Hence thier simple query comes back to me as in

In your technical domain (IT), what does Software hosting Service imply? :-(

Now that is precisly what my query is all about.

So incase anyone has atleast an answer describing what is "Software Hosting Service", I shall be more than pleased to hear so. The Lawyer part I'm anyhow trying to work out (but that seems very unlikely scenario).

Thanks in advance.

Gaurav.

www.anurakti.com

Thanks Jeff!

That response was something closer to what I'm looking out for. And surely I'm trying to get in touch with MS license team.

But in anycase, would still be pleased to hear any other /more inputs on the matter from the fellow community.

Thanks!

Gaurav.

www.anurakti.com

Hi All!

Thought keep you all updated on the solution to my problem/query.

NOTE: LEGAL DISCLAIMER, this solution was specific to my needs/problem and may not fit all issues that the reader/you might be looking for an answer. Would suggest the readers to do self analysis & take appropriate steps before drawing any conclusion. I'm posting the answer to my problem just for knowledge of fellow community.

I'd posted the exact query to the MS team on the MS forum and you may access the following link for their answer.

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?postid=2902317&isthread=true&siteid=1&authhash=ed86510fbf24cf255b1c507aed729142da523704&ticks=633395207716715297

Hope it helps.

Cheers!

Gaurav.

http://www.anurakti.com