[rescue] Old Sun OSes

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> I dont meant to sound like a hardass - but I dont need 
> Sun or anybody else coming after me with the DMCA for 
> "distributing or disseminating copyrighted information".
> 
> Even though Sun has a "Free Solaris" license, I dont think
> they want people distributing their OSes for free where 
> people do not have to agree to the hobbyist licenses before
> downloading.

The current release (9) is free for the downloading after you agree to
the legal stuff, the previous (8) is $20 and anything earlier is not
available for downloading.

AFIK Solaris 7 had a free (pay for the media/shipping) developer/hobbist
program, but anything earlier than that did not.

Before that some retailers of used Suns had higher prices than others
because they included a "right to use" license for SunOS which was and
probably still is not free.

So while it is unlikely that Sun would get sticky about it, it is within
their rights to and not fair to expose Bill to the liability.

Bill, thanks again for the list.

Geoff.

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