Recentemente Microsoft ha rilasciato una versione gratuita di Visual Studio: Visual Studio Community Edition
la licenza dice
IF YOU COMPLY WITH THESE LICENSE TERMS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS BELOW.
- INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.
a. Individual license. If you are an individual working on your own applications to sell or for any other purpose, you may use the software to develop and test those applications.
b. Organization licenses. If you are an organization, your users may use the software as follows:
· Any number of your users may use the software to develop and test your applications released under Open Source Institute (OSI)-approved open source software licenses.
· Any number of your users may use the software to develop and test your applications as part of online or in person classroom training and education, or for performing academic research.
· If none of the above apply, and you are also not an enterprise (defined below), then up to 5 of your individual users can use the software concurrently to develop and test your applications.
· If you are an enterprise, your employees and contractors may not use the software to develop or test your applications, except for open source and education purposes as permitted above. An “enterprise” is any organization and its affiliates who collectively have either (a) more than 250 PCs or users or (b) more than one million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in annual revenues, and “affiliates” means those entities that control (via majority ownership), are controlled by, or are under common control with an organization.
c. Demo use. The uses permitted above include use of the software in demonstrating your applications.
d. Backup copy. You may make one backup copy of the software, for reinstalling the software.
Come "Individuale" mi interessa la clausola "a", tuttavia non è così chiara ed esplicita. per me sembra un po 'restrittivo in quanto non copre una vasta gamma di utilizzo (open source, lavoro freelance, contributo ad applicazioni che non possiedi, ecc.), la confusione proviene esattamente dal termine PROPRI 'usato nella frase, Potrei interpretare erroneamente il tutto in quanto l'inglese non è la mia lingua madre. Quindi, come interpreteresti la frase? Possiamo supporre che possiamo usare un software se la licenza non lo rende chiaro, per esempio "non è permesso usarlo in questo o in quel senario" come per "Entreprises" nella clausola "b"?