VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B

Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by PersonalOps on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:51AM (#20777584)

I asked the same thing a few years back. A lawyer friend of mine (not legal advice) said the company with the license does not need to transfer it since it's still used within the same customer: the company. The only difference is the definition of the company changed to include far more branches of employees, IP, and more.

Think about name changes for humans. You don't have to re-sign all of your contracts and potentially pay penalties for breaking and re-entering contracts in doing so. It is understood that you're still the same person but going by another identifier. Same here. Same company, another identifier.

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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by c-smile on Friday August 23, 2019 @10:00AM (#20777680)

Thanks, but the text of the license also states "All Source Code provided with Software... must be protected"

Yet particular license type is dependent on size of organization. A+B entity is clearly not the same as just entity B so something needs to be done in regards of this, no?

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