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Old 04-18-2007, 03:50 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SandMan View Post
If you read the license agreement you will see that you can't have business transactions with the software. It is for personal use. The licensing fee for the game engine would probably be astronomical if it were used for business use. Almost every software license states this. For personal use on one pc at a time. Not many will allow you to install on a server for multiple users and allow you to profit from such. This is not the same thing as having everyone own the game and splitting the cost to have their league on a website, because then the game players are not paying to play, they are paying to have a service - the website.
Which is what I assumed he meant, and what other "Pay" leagues did. It wouldn't be illegal to have a pay league when everyone has their own copy of the game. In essence, you'd be paying to join the league, not for use of the software off a server and not necessarily for the web site.

I agree with your assessment in that regard.
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