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- Subject: [Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files
- From: mark at buttery.org (Shirley Márquez Dúlcey)
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 09:29:19 -0500
- In-reply-to: <34ddcd6c-8f34-08b6-383c-f7ab535f8028@mattgillen.net>
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Matt, the document you passed along is specific to volume license agreements - in other words, corporate licenses. It does not apply to Windows licenses that come with a computer bought by a normal consumer, or by a company that just buys licensed computers and does not have a Windows Enterprise or VDA agreement. So far as I know, the licenses that come with computers still do not come with any virtual machine rights. On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:36 AM, Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> wrote: > On 12/11/2017 11:38 PM, Shirley M?rquez D?lcey wrote: >> The catch is licensing. The Windows license that came with your >> computer doesn't cover running it in a virtual machine. You'll have to >> buy a full retail license to do that legally. > > Sorry to come to this thread late, but I don't think this is true > anymore (it was definitely true pre-Windows7). Starting with win7, they > changed the OEM license rules: > > Licensing Windows desktop operating system for use with virtual machines > http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/8/D/98D6A56C-4D79-40F4-8462-DA3ECBA2DC2C/Licensing_Windows_Desktop_OS_for_Virtual_Machines.pdf > >> For Windows desktop operating system software licenses acquired >> through the OEM channel, the Windows use rights are outlined in the >> Software License Terms that accompany the software. These license >> terms provide use rights to run Windows locally on the licensed >> device in a virtual operating system environment (OSE). > > So as long as you're running the windows VM on the hardware that the OEM > Windows copy was originally shipped with, you're legal. I've confirmed > this works with at least the Dell OEM Win7 from a few years ago. > > Thanks, > Matt > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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