They are covering your collective a**.
At my place of work, we are legally required to purchase an enterprise
license for all software. Lots of "free" software is only free for
personal use, not for corporate use.
My IT department is concerned about being audited for proper licensing
- I know it has happened in the past.
On 10/24/11, Steve Pankow <spankow@cmc.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since so many here use Streamclip, I was hoping for some advice. We've been
> using it to transcode mpeg2 files from various spot delivery services for
> some time now in order to get them into MC 2.2.10. Our IT department now
> says that since we (or perhaps Squared5) are not paying royalties to MPEG
> LA, we cannot use this software and proposes we purchase a copy of Procoder.
> Does anyone have experience with the legalities on this? Squared5 claims
> it's open, yet IT uses this to claim we're in violation:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/licensing/mpeg4faq.aspx#MPEG4VideoFAQ_2_1
>
> TIA,
>
> Steve Pankow
> KEZI Creative Services
> Eugene, OR
> 541-485-5611 x3527
> spankow@cmc.net
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
--
---
Rob Lawson
System Administrator, ACSR ISIS, Windows & Interplay
CBS News
No comments:
Post a Comment