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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Question Regarding Solaris RTU Licensing
- Message-ID: <15574@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:55:05 GMT
- References: <BxvIxz.5qn@trc.amoco.com> <1992Nov18.222321.10382@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <1992Nov19.133756@siisun.epfl.ch>
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- > Sun machines as delivered come with a RTU of two users. If you add
- >Xterminal, one may assume that each one represents one more user of
- >the server hence, one more RTU to buy. The fact that this is not
- >enforced by the OS doesn't change the legal aspect of it.
-
- Actually, that may not be necessary, *if* Sun is merely passing on the
- requirement that, as I remember, was in AT&T UNIX licenses at one point,
- namely that you had to buy an N-user license based on the number of
- *serial ports on the system to which you attach interactive terminals*.
-
- If so, then I don't think X terminals count, as they're attached via IP,
- not via a serial port (unless you're using SLIP or Xremote or PPP or
- something such as that). (Yes, such a licensing scheme is completely
- stupid, but that won't necessarily stop some software vendor from using
- it....)
-