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

From: Dave (nospam_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:31:08 +0000

Casper H.S. *** 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.

Hence the word "Free" was in quotes when I started the thread! It was a
stretch of the imagination to call the old license "Free". But that is
all in the past.

> But there are reasons that Sun may not want that: we want people
> to use Solaris 10. So such a license would need to be drafted
> as "You may run Solaris 9 only on hardware not capable of running
> Solaris 10".

Does not sound too hard to do - you have just inserted a suitable
sentence yourself!!

The license would not need a major re-write of your Solaris 10 license -
just a sentence added.

> I don't think there's anything wrong in pushing
> S10 by differentiating the licensing issues.

But a better way to push Solaris 10 is

* Make it better
* Tell people why it is better.
* Publish a list of what was supported, but no longer is, so people can
be sure it is not going to hurt them upgrading.

I expect you have already done all 3 above, so there should be no need
for tricks with licensing issues.

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