Apple legal is slacking, Safari on non-Apple hardware prohibited

Ah, Apple’s legal department.  Our favorite group of &%# people ever.  Turns out someone over there hasn’t been doing their homework.  According to Safari for Windows‘ Software License PDF, the software is only to be installed on Apple-labeled computers…

2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.

This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.  The Apple Software may be used to reproduce materials so long as such use is limited to reproduction of non-copyrighted materials, materials in which you own the copyright, or materials you are authorized or legally permitted to reproduce. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time. You may make one copy of the Apple Software in machine-backup copy must include all copyright or other proprietary notices contained on the original.

This is in contrast to Windows iTunes license:

2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.

This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software.  The Apple Software may be used to reproduce materials
so long as such use is limited to reproduction of non-copyrighted materials…

So, unless you are running Windows Safari on Bootcamp, or on a Parallels or VMWare Fusion image, you are doing so against the terms of service that Apple provides – in other words, illegally.

Obviously, this is a typo on the part of Apple’s legal team…but legal typos can be dangerous.

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