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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 558180" data-attributes="member: 649">Borland (a software company) used to have a very simple license: effectively pretend that their software is a physical book. Because it's a physical book you can only access it in one place at one time. You can install your copy of the software on as many machines as you like, as long as you're only using it in one place at a time. If you want to use it two places at once, you need two copies, just like a book.In a group licensing situation, you pay a certain price for n copies of the book. So if you paid $5 for one copy of the PDF, perhaps you could pay $12 for, effectively, three copies. As long as no more than 3 copies are being accessed at the same time (in any form, electronic or printed), you're cool.All of this has absolutely no effect on piracy, of course. It would simply be designed so that those of us who wanted to expose our whole group to something, allowing multiple people to use it at the same time, could feel like we were playing it straight without buying a bunch of individual copies. There are people out here who want to act morally in line with the publisher's needs, too, y'know.</blockquote>