Academic software

You can carry on using it.

It depends. It sounds like you are buying the "Academic" version of the software, ie. you are buying it for yourself, likely from a campus store or by mail. In this case you can continue to use it (you own it) after you graduate. The restriction to keep in mind is that you cannot transfer your licence (sell) it to someone who doesn''t qualify for Academic licences. The other type is a site type of licence that works with the institution. Normally this would mean that you got all your software for free, but it is considered the property of the school. You can only continue to use the software as long as you are a student/staff of the facilty that owns the licence.

You can use it as long as you like, but there are restrictions on distributing programs written with it.

So if you write some app or game in VB and then released it as shareware or whatever, you''d be breaking the academic license, whether or not you were still in school.

I''ve got a simmilar question about VS.Net Academic. In the license agreement, it says that to use it you have to qualify (be a student, a teacher, etc).

Wouldn''t that mean that using it after you graduate would violate the license since you no logner meet the requirements?

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Original post by gmcbay
You can use it as long as you like, but there are restrictions on distributing programs written with it.

So if you write some app or game in VB and then released it as shareware or whatever, you'd be breaking the academic license, whether or not you were still in school.

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That is incorrect. There are no such restrictions in the academic license for software sold to students.

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[edited by - benjamin bunny on January 23, 2003 7:45:40 PM]