martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) (11/09/89)
Hey all 386/ix-users out there, anyone of you ever read your ISC's SOFTWARE LICENSE carefully or is mine a special one. I quote from paragraph one: [ 1. LICENSE GRANT. .... You may not network the software or otherwise use it on more than one computer terminal the same time ...] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Can anybody explain about the second part of that sentence? I have an 'unlimited users' license! Does this mean, I have to log out, before I login on another terminal. Or do I even have to kill 'getty' and take the terminal out of the 'inittab' to be in compliance with the license :-/. Does this apply to multiscreens on the console too? :-) Another quote from paragraph two: [ 2. COPYRIGHT AND TITLE. ... you may either (a) make one (1) copy of the software solely for backup purposes or (b) transfer the software to a single hard disk ... ] Except that this, taken literally, would not allow for the usr- partition to be installed on a separate drive, there is a a more serious problem: Given the fact, I backup the root- or usr-partition on a tape, do I carefully have to *exclude* all ISC-supplied code from the backups, if I don't want to violate the license? BTW: Using the backup-selection from the sysadm-menus does *not* provide for this, so anyone who has ever used it should take a look to paragraph seven. Again I quote: [ 7. TERMINATION: This License ... terminates without notice from INTERACTIVE if you fail to comply with any of its provisions. Upon termination you shall destroy the software ....] So, all of you who backed up your 386/ix with the sysadm-menus, hurry and destroy your software ... Or is it, that in these days today the one who writes a license agreement expects, it will not be taken serious (if it is read at all). P.S.: The above is meant satirically but I greatly appreciate Borland's "No Nonsense License Statement".