Is it legal to use Wang or Kodak Imaging from Windows 2000 on XP?
Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 12:39 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Riggs
(1 messages posted)
As has been mentioned here, there are licensing
and possible copyright infringement issues
with importing Kodak Imaging into Windows XP.
I'm not an attorney, but I believe doing so is legal if and ONLY if:
1. You have valid licenses for both Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP.
2. Both above OS licenses must be valid for use on the same machine.
Since OEM licenses are valid only for the machine with which they come,
this means that at least one of your two OS licenses must be full retail.
3. The grafted Kodak Imaging is used only on the machine for which your OS license
is OEM, if applicable.
(Substitute "Windows 98" or Windows ME" for "Windows 2000 Pro" above,
if you can get it to work using only files from that OS, technically.)
If these conditions are not satisfied, then grafting Kodak Imaging into Windows XP
constitutes copyright infringement, and is thus illegal.
And that is why downloads making this easy are now generally unavailable.
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