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- From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Put away your Motif manual; Sun's lawyers are at the door!
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:58:35 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- References: <1h80cpINNevp@spud.Hyperion.COM> <rhoward.725070100@matd>
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- In <rhoward.725070100@matd> rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
-
- >koreth@spud.Hyperion.COM (Steven Grimm) writes:
- >> Developed Programs may be used and
- >>distributed, but only on computer equipment licensed to utilize Solaris
- >>operating system software, unless an additional Developer's License Agreement
- >>has been executed by SunSoft and Customer;
- >
- >You can't use Solaris and its tools to build an application that will
- >run on machines with no Solaris license. (I guess that implies I
- >can't use Solaris to build an Xkernel for PCs where that individual
- >has not licensed Solaris).
-
- Let me get this straight. If I install an i386 cross compiler version
- of gcc on my Solaris box at work and use it to compile code to run on
- my 386BSD box at home I'm breaking the license agreement? That seems
- utterly rediculous to me.
- --
- ++Brett;
-