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- From: bkc2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Benjamin Clardy)
- Subject: Re: SunOS license moves with CPU
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.020156.327@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan23.202207.11113@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1993Jan25.124007.7960@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <1993Jan25.163755.4687@ll.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:01:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.163755.4687@ll.mit.edu> mikem@ll.mit.edu writes:
- >scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
- >>
- >>Last I heard, the licence now transfers with the hardware. I did not
- >>get this from Sun, but from a reseller.
- >
- >Well, I got it straight from Sun - from our regional software maintenance
- > contact.
- >I asked *specifically* about transferability of the license when buying a used
- >system, which I was in the process of doing. She said the most recently
- >licensed
- >version of SunOS for that CPU was transferred with the CPU at time of sale.
- >
- >-- Mike Maciolek
- >mikem@ll.mit.edu
-
-
-
- If you really want the straight poop, I would talk to the Sun Legal
- department. When we went through all this junk a couple of years ago,
- the *seller* had to request a form from Sun, both parties
- complete it, and then return it to Sun. The seller also had to be
- an authorized Sun reseller or possibly an inidividual for this to
- work. In our case, we found out that the seller was not an
- authorized reseller.
- Even if the seller is authorized, getting him to initiate this junk
- may a pain, especially if he already has your cash, so buyer beware.
-
- For partial SunOS upgrades,e.g. 4.01->4.03, serial numbers are not
- required but the are required for full upgrades, e.g. 4.01->Solaris 2.1.
-
- This sort of licensing also makes it impossible to build a machine
- solely from spare parts. Paradoxically, if you used the monitor
- controls cover from a dead SLC (which has the serial # imprinted on
- it) in building a SS10, you might have a legal machine. A dead
- SLC without a motherboard or RAM would certainly be cheaper than
- a new SunOS license.
-
- Again this was a couple of years ago, so things may have changed.
- At the time, however, it was enough to make us think that we should
- have bought Intel boxes.
-
- ---
- Benjamin
- --
- Benjamin Clardy bkc2@midway.uchicago.edu
-