The outcry over Apple’s pushing of Safari through Apple Software Update has not ended yet, but we already learn that Apple itself considers Safari illegal. No kidding.
Fabio M. Zambelli, brave man, took the trouble to
read Apple’s
license for Safari 3.1. There actually are two licenses, one for Safari for
MacOS and one for Safari for Windows. Mr Zambelli read the Safari for Windows
license.
He noticed that according to the license, you are allowed to have Safari
installed on a single Apple-labelled computer at a time.
. Thus, installation on
a non-Apple PCs is illegal.
The full sentence is This license allows you to install and use one copy of
the Apple Software on a single Apple-labelled computer at a time.
.
Responding to this revelation, Apple has quickly changed that line to This
license allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on each
computer owned or controlled by you.
.
However, as I write this, the Safari for Mac license remains unchanged. It still includes exactly that sentence. Thus, it is still illegal for owners of more than one Apple-labelled computer to install Safari on all of them.
Browsing through the license, I notice that they fixed the one sentence Mr
Zambelli had called attention to, but still came across This license does not
allow the Apple software to exist on more one computer at a time
, which
means
that it is illegal for you to install Safari if anyone else in the world has already
installed on any other computer...
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