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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: ftp.sgi.com
- Message-ID: <34589@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 12:35:11 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- In article <34542@adm.brl.mil>, krumbein@thama1.apgea.army.mil (Michael Zvi Krumbein) writes:
- > Are the files in sgi.com's ftp available (legally) to all? I ask because of
- >the discussion about psview. Is it available to everyone with support? Everyone
- > who owns an SGI machine?
- >
- > mzk Michael Zvi Krumbein krumbein@thama1.apgea.army.mil
-
-
- That depends on what is meant by "available (legally)".
-
- Since there is no reasonable way to keep total strangers from fetching
- those files, anyone who wants can fetch them. There is (or should be)
- nothing that requires an extra-cost lisense in sgi.com:~ftp. For one
- thing, managing the paper work for the lisenses would be impossible.
-
- About the only restriction that makes sense is that people here would
- be irritated if someone reverse-compiled and ported the stuff to some
- other brand of hardware.
-
- Of course, Silicon Graphics does not promise that the stuff in sgi:~ftp
- will work, not destroy your disks, not make you lose money, or not
- cause cancer.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-