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IANAL but I think you'd be fine as long as you placed your NUC on a Mac Mini or maybe a closed Macbook if your hardware has a larger footprint.

> use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at any one time.

Note that you do have to be careful not to stack multiple Macbooks when you do this.

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That was a good dry joke at the end. Nice one
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The Mac of Theseus
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Except int this case, we pulled a single plank off of ship of the ship, burned the rest of it, and nailed the plank to a brand new ship built in a competing ship yard.
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These sort of letter-of-the-law arguments don't tend to do well in court in my very limited experience (UK). But I love the essence of it!
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The UK has been slowly codifying laws over time, transitioning from common law to written law. In the Americas, we kind of jump started that processes, and are far more focused on the law as written, to the point that the positioning of a comma can have million-dollar implications: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/business/worldbusiness/25...

If a literal interpretation of what you wrote allows for something, even though it's clear that you hadn't intended to do so, then it is going to be allowed.

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>If a literal interpretation of what you wrote allows for something, even though it's clear that you hadn't intended to do so, then it is going to be allowed.

No, the US legal system generally applies objective theory to contracts. Courts generally recognize what a reasonable person would intend a contract to mean.

Furthermore, courts also generally reject interpretations made in bad faith, which means if one party is "looking for a creative interpretation" to their own benefit, their interpretation is invalid.

And thirdly, ambiguity in a contract is not fair game for one party to interpret something however they want. Courts would evaluate the ambiguity based on whatever the shared purpose of the language being in the contract is.

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> If a literal interpretation of what you wrote allows for something, even though it's clear that you hadn't intended to do so, then it is going to be allowed.

This isn’t necessarily true, there are a variety of legal doctrines specifically to handle things like this. Take, for example, the major questions doctrine.

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I would love to hear more about the exact license wording that allows this.
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It's been a while since I've looked at it, but I believe it says something along the lines of "Apple-branded systems". Putting an Apple logo sticker on a Hackintosh was a common thing to do for this reason.
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A PC with an Apple sticker on it is not an Apple-branded system, it is a PC with an Apple sticker on it. If you actually were to consider it an Apple-branded system, then it would be a trademark violation, which feels worse to me.
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I doubt anyone thought the sticker made it actually legal.

More along the lines of "65 miles an hour? I was only out for 30 minutes..."

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