Re: End of "Free" Solaris binary licence program - now it's free.

From: Goran Larsson (hoh_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 13:55:58 GMT

In article <4218846a$0$28994$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
Casper H.S. *** <Casper.***@Sun.COM> wrote:

> The old free binary license program was always very
> restrictive; I think most sun4m systems didn't even qualify
> as they could have multiple CPUs installed.

This is true for the free binary license program used for Solaris 9.
The free binary license program used for Solaris 8 was not as
restrictive, e.g. it allowed for more CPUs, four IIRC.

> It was also never legal, I seem to remember, to use a free
> binary license on a grey market Sun system. (Silly, but)

This was also something that Sun added for Solaris 9. 

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