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- From: hanson@pogo.fnal.gov (Steve Hanson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Solaris 2.1 -- draconian licensing?
- Date: 12 Dec 92 01:00:31 GMT
- Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL
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- Message-ID: <hanson.724122031@pogo>
- References: <1f10brINNqph@almaak.usc.edu> <1992Nov26.112128.3810@cc.uow.edu.au> <BLYMN.92Nov30203536@coolibah.awadi.com.au>
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- In <BLYMN.92Nov30203536@coolibah.awadi.com.au> blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes:
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- >>>>>> On Thu, 26 Nov 92 11:21:28 GMT, g9129499@cc.uow.edu.au (Jeremy Lawrence) said:
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- >Jeremy> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
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- >>Is it enforced?
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- >Jeremy> Are you kidding?! Sun _might_ notice if an organization the size of a
- >Jeremy> university had ten licenses for 10000 users, but otherwise they wouldn't
- >Jeremy> have a hope. Even if they did notice, they'd have to _prove_ the site was
- >Jeremy> violating their license to do anything about it.
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- >I am not so sure about that. On our Sys V Interactive unix the login
- >program actually knew how many people were logged on and would refuse
- >new logins if the license limit was exceeded, to upgrade your license
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- This question was brought up at SUG this week - of course, the
- licensing is not currently enforced. However - there was some vague
- mumbling about the likelihood that Sun would enforce login licensing
- at some time in the future.
- --
- Steve Hanson - FERMILAB, Batavia, Il.
- hanson@pogo.fnal.gov or hanson@fnal.fnal.gov
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