Woody,
I think it completely makes sense to decline helping someone break the EULA. However, I read section 2B (iii) a few times today(reproduced at the bottom of email for reference). I am not a lawyer, and it wouldn't be the first time if I was wrong, but my interpretation of that is that 'Apple Software' applies to the Apple OSX software that you have bought from the Apple Store, so really as long as you have bought both Lion and Mountain Lion from the Apple Store (buying a computer with it pre-installed does not count), then you are OK to mix and match host/VM.
I opened a ticket with Apple support. I did not provide my theory, but explained that I bought both from the Apple Store and that I wanted to run Lion as a VM under Mountain Lion. He (granted, not a lawyer either) answered with the same way I interpreted the EULA, that if I have bought it in the Apple Store, and I am using it under my Apple Store ID (meaning not selling it to someone else, or letting others use it in a way that violates the EULA), then I am good, and can run one as host and the other as guest.
Again, I don't claim to be an expert or that I am 100% correct, but if you are not from Apple, or if you did not come by your interpretation of the EULA from an Apple lawyer, please consider reading it again, and consider if the above interpretation may be correct. You have a vast amount of knowledge that could help out quite a few people, and my fear is that you may be declining to help people that you could help, when you really should not have to (since their use cases aren't really breaking the EULA).
Thanks,
- D
The below is from the 10.7 EULA. The highlighting below is not from EULA, but from me....
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1. General.
A. The Apple software (including Boot ROM code), any third party software, documentation, interfaces, content, fonts and any data accompanying this License whether preinstalled on Apple-branded hardware, on disk, in read only memory, on any other media or in any other form (collectively the “Apple Software”) are licensed, not sold, to you by Apple Inc. (“Apple”) for use only under the terms of this License. Apple and/or Apple’s licensors retain ownership of the Apple Software itself and reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.
B. Apple, at its discretion, may make available future upgrades or updates to the Apple Software for your Apple-branded computer. Apple may provide you any such upgrades and updates that it may release up to, but not including, the next major release of the Apple Software, for free. For example, if you originally purchased a license for version 10.7 of the Apple Software, Apple may provide you for free any software upgrades or updates it might release (e.g. version 10.7.1 or 10.7.2) up to, but not including, version 10.8 of the Apple Software. After the next major release of the Apple Software, Apple may also at its discretion continue to provide minor updates and enhancements to the Apple Software. Upgrades and updates, if any, may not necessarily include all existing software features or new features that Apple releases for newer models of Apple-branded computers and may, at Apple’s discretion, be provided with or without charge. The terms of this License will govern any software upgrades or updates provided by Apple that replace and/or supplement the original Apple Software product, unless such upgrade or update is accompanied by a separate license in which case the terms of that license will govern."
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"2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions."
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"B. License from Mac App Store. If you obtained a license for the Apple Software from the Mac App Store, then subject to the terms and conditions of this License and as permitted by the Mac App Store Usage Rules set forth in the App Store Terms and Conditions (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/) (“Usage Rules”), you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license: "
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"(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software. "
