"Clean Install" Snow Leopard on Tiger using 30 eur DVD. Legal or not?

Hi!
I have two questions:
1). Is it possible to use the "cheap" 30 euro DVD to "clean install" Snow Leopard on 5yrs old MacBook running Tiger?
By "clean install" I mean to erase the hard drive and then install the new operating system (Snow Leopard).
I have read that is possible technically but is it legal?
2). Is "Clean Install" and "Upgrading" similar or different from a legal point of view?
A clean install is when you erase your hard drive and then install the operating system. An upgrade is when you just overwrite the operating system and keep other files in place.
Thanks,
D.M.

1. Yes.
2. They are different. The former requires first erasing the drive while the latter upgrades an existing system.

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