Software Licensing

[Randygk]

If we sell a company off to another party and we purchase our servers back from them. Who has the rights to the software licenses are they licensed to the server or to the company which in name no longer exists? They include several Microsoft products and Computer Associates, Crystal

 

[AntunB]

is it a site license?

or per server license?

or per seat?

or wat?



wat type o license

 

[Randygk]

MS Windows 2k advanced server per seat license,
MS Office Pro 5 seat license,
MS SQL 2000 25 seat License,
Computer Associates Innoculate IT 25 Licenses,
Computer Associates Arc Serve Open License,
Computer Associates Arc Serve SQL DB Backup,
Computer Associates Arc Serve MS Exchange Backup,
Seagate Crystal Reports 8.5 1 license,
MS Visual Basic 6.0 1 open License,
Citrix Metaframe XP 25 seat License,
Citrix Metaframe Resource Manager,
Citrix Load Balancing

 

[GlenJohnson]

Something should have been put in writing to clarify this before the sales. What did you sell exactly, and what did you buy back. If you sold everything, and only bought the servers back, chances are you no longer own the licenses. This might be a job for an attorney if it gets messy.

Glen A. Johnson
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[NickFerrar]

Not sure on non-MS stuff but I think the following applies to MS licences...

If they are OEM licences they are linked to the hardware they were sold with.

If they are non-OEM licences then they are linked to the purchaser of the licences. You need to contact Microsoft to legally transfer ownership (and you can't even do this with certain types of licences - I'd guess Select and ESL licences are excluded). If you change company name etc again you're supposed to inform Microsoft.