I RECEIVE THIS EMAIL. WHY?

I HEARD THAT IF USER LINK EACH OTHER MUST HAVE MORE THAN ONE LICENSE FOR EACH. THIS IS NOT FAIR CAUSE IM USING THIS FOR ONE COMPUTER NOT LINK WITH THE OTHER BUT JUST INSTALL IT WITH SAME LICENSE. 

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Dear Mr. Mohd Sedik Zakaria

We are contacting you - as the contact on this account - because our licensing system is reporting that you or someone connected to your account: psskualaketil@gmail.com is running DataEase 8.5 software without a proper license.

Please don?t worry as this is just an information email to make you aware of this fact so you can take proper action to secure your account and make sure you have a valid license.

Our systems indicates that software with an invalid/illegal license connected to this account has been used: 2748 times over the last 60 days.

Our systems further indicates that there is: 1 valid licenses connected to this account and that it has been installed: 21 times on individual/unique systems.

We will take no action at this time, but please immediately take step to limit any illegal access to your account and rectify any non-compliance with DataEase Licensing Agreement.

Kind Regards
DataEase Licensing Department

E-mail: enforcement@dataease.com
Internet: www.dataease.com

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Dear Mr. Zakaria.

Firstly, your reply itself make it clear to us that you have acted as you believed to be correct but:

DataEase as a software is 35 years old and with changing times and changing technology also Licensing terms change.

All throughout the DataEase for DOS period DataEase was sold with something called concurrent users. This meant that no more than the licensed number inside a company/organisation could run DataEase at any given time. The way to “police” this was in practice to check how many people opened the same application, and when the counter exceeded the allowed user count it would give a warning and no more user would be allowed to log in until one had exited DataEase.

If that company ran two copies of the same application in parallel they would technically be able to run the double of active users at the same time, but legally they would be in breach with the licensing terms as the licensing was for DataEase not the Application.

So if this company had 1 user and ran 200 copies of the application the software would not protest, but they would breach the licensing terms 199 times.

With the introduction of 7.0 DFD was finally left behind and licensing changed from concurrent users to installed users and this is how it has been since.

An installed user is a Computer/device. So from 7.0 to 8.5 inclusive you would be in breach if you installed DataEase on more than one computer if you had a single user license.

We have not policed this harshly, as some flexibility is implied if not granted. A user that install DataEase on his Work computer and his laptop and never use both at the same time would strictly speaking be in breach, but in our mind that is not a big crime.

However what is clearly in breach is of one has a Single User software and then install and use it on two different computers that is used by two different people.

All licenses are personal, which means that it is non-transferable and can only be used by the licensee (and his immediate family) and if the licensee is a company or organisation – its employees/members.

What is fully in breach with both the current and any previous DataEase Software Licensing Agreements is to share a license – even if you have the correct number of users – with anyone outside your company/organisation.

So:
1. If you are running 21 instances inside your company, you will need a 21 User License.
2 If you are runnoing21 single users in 21 different legal entities (Private User, Company or Organisation) you will need 21 single user licenses.
So what we can UNEQUIVOCALLY state is that your interpretation of the licensing rules has never been the actual terms, neither NOW nor in the past.

Your interpretation would actually turn you into us i.e DataEase as you could sell DataEase to anyone you like as long as they complied with the user restrictions on the license we issued you with. Obviously this would not be terms that DataEase would ever issue or be able to survive with.

If you resell your applications it is not your responsibility to make sure that the customers that buy your application have a valid licenses, but it is 100% your responsibility if you furnish them with a copy of your license under the pretext that they buy a legal software.

As a partner or as a private person, you can buy them a legal license of DataEase but you can under no circumstances use your private license to resell DataEase.

As far as we can tell from our systems do we not have a formalized relationship with you or your company and we are not aware in what capacity you use and develop with DataEase.

We would appreciate some more information from you so we can help you comply with our licensing terms.

If you resell your software, you might benefit from formalising your relationship with us as a partner. As a partner you would get access to different licensing terms that might suit your needs better than the ones available to users.

We are not a vindictive organisation and we do 100% believe that you acted as you thought was correct, so we will help you in any way we can and we would welcome you as a partner with open arms.

But now that you have been brought up to date with the facts, you need to take action one way or the other as your breach of licensing terms is very severe, especially if you have been reselling the software and handing out copies of your license keys to other companies/persons.

Please contact us on licensing@dataease.com to discuss your options and to apply to become a partner.