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From: Another Tom on 20 Jun 2005 18:37 Rich Teer wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Bill Waddington wrote: > > >>Looking in my downloads/images bin, I see: >> >>s8_sparc_02.04 >>s9_sparc_u2 >>s8_x86_02.02 >>s9_x86_u2 >>s9_x86_u5 >> >>Hypothetically supposing I wanted to toss the zips on a couple of >>DVDs and _give_ them to you, does either one of us get in trouble >>re RTU issues? > > > With Solaris 8, I think the situatrion is simple: it came with a $0 > RTU for <= 8 CPUs. S9 wasn't so generous--it didn't come with a free > RTU, IIRC. > > So, S8 should be safe, S9 less so. > > But are Sun's lawyers REALLY gonna chase the OP for the license fee? > I don't think so... > Rich, I believe that the licensing policy for s8 was changed AGAIN when s9 was released.
From: Another Tom on 20 Jun 2005 18:43 Another Tom wrote: > Rich Teer wrote: > >> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Bill Waddington wrote: >> >> >>> Looking in my downloads/images bin, I see: >>> >>> s8_sparc_02.04 >>> s9_sparc_u2 >>> s8_x86_02.02 >>> s9_x86_u2 >>> s9_x86_u5 >>> >>> Hypothetically supposing I wanted to toss the zips on a couple of >>> DVDs and _give_ them to you, does either one of us get in trouble >>> re RTU issues? >> >> >> >> With Solaris 8, I think the situatrion is simple: it came with a $0 >> RTU for <= 8 CPUs. S9 wasn't so generous--it didn't come with a free >> RTU, IIRC. >> >> So, S8 should be safe, S9 less so. >> >> But are Sun's lawyers REALLY gonna chase the OP for the license fee? >> I don't think so... >> > Rich, I believe that the licensing policy for s8 was changed AGAIN when > s9 was released.
From: Another Tom on 20 Jun 2005 18:43 Another Tom wrote: > Rich Teer wrote: > >> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Bill Waddington wrote: >> >> >>> Looking in my downloads/images bin, I see: >>> >>> s8_sparc_02.04 >>> s9_sparc_u2 >>> s8_x86_02.02 >>> s9_x86_u2 >>> s9_x86_u5 >>> >>> Hypothetically supposing I wanted to toss the zips on a couple of >>> DVDs and _give_ them to you, does either one of us get in trouble >>> re RTU issues? >> >> >> >> With Solaris 8, I think the situatrion is simple: it came with a $0 >> RTU for <= 8 CPUs. S9 wasn't so generous--it didn't come with a free >> RTU, IIRC. >> >> So, S8 should be safe, S9 less so. >> >> But are Sun's lawyers REALLY gonna chase the OP for the license fee? >> I don't think so... >> > Rich, I believe that the licensing policy for s8 was changed AGAIN when > s9 was released. http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process=SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=95101
From: Colin B. on 20 Jun 2005 18:47 Rich Teer <rich.teer(a)rite-group.com> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Bill Waddington wrote: > >> Looking in my downloads/images bin, I see: >> >> s8_sparc_02.04 >> s9_sparc_u2 >> s8_x86_02.02 >> s9_x86_u2 >> s9_x86_u5 >> >> Hypothetically supposing I wanted to toss the zips on a couple of >> DVDs and _give_ them to you, does either one of us get in trouble >> re RTU issues? > > With Solaris 8, I think the situatrion is simple: it came with a $0 > RTU for <= 8 CPUs. S9 wasn't so generous--it didn't come with a free > RTU, IIRC. > > So, S8 should be safe, S9 less so. > > But are Sun's lawyers REALLY gonna chase the OP for the license fee? > I don't think so... Furthermore, if I remember correctly (and I may not here), S9 was free for educational or developmental use, which this certainly qualifies for in my mind. Colin
From: kristian.hermansen on 20 Jun 2005 19:15
Well, licenses have already been purchased for the SunBlade 150s that these will be running on. I just have more updated releases, which is normally a good thing. In this case, it is not. I already have Solaris 8 (SPARC - 6/01) and Solaris 9 (SPARC - 12/02). I really need the original releases of Solaris 8 (SPARC - 2/00) and Solaris 9 (SPARC - 5/02). I will check some local tech book and software shops, but things don't look good when the original issuer of the software makes it unavailable :-( On the Microsoft side of things, not that I like them very much, at least they offer the MSDN subscription which allows downloading of ANYTHING ever made by M$. I mean, I can even get Window 3.1 if I want or any patch level of current Operating Systems. I don't think that Sun offers the same thing. At least it would have been nice to dump the ISOs on their public FTP before running the old releases into the ground... Kristian Hermansen |