From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Sep 25 09:57:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00937 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:57:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles251.castles.com [208.214.165.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00929 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:57:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03961; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:02:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809251702.KAA03961@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Tom Bartol cc: Stuart Krivis , emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sybase/linux In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:14:58 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:02:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > The license when you download from Caldera says: > > > > > > LICENSE & LICENSE RESTRICTIONS. You are allowed to install and use the > > > Software for free as long as you operate the Software at all times only > > > with the Linux operation system running natively on your hardware system. > > > You may modify, translate or adapt the Software as long as you do not > > > reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it (except to the extent the > > > laws in your jurisdiction specifically prohibit these restrictions). > > > > This raises the question: "What is the Linux Operating System?" > > > > It also raises the question: "What does it mean to run native?" > > If running unmodified Linux i386 binaries and libraries on an i386 machine > is not native then I don't know what is. Unfortunately, this definition is too lose. What the license means specifically is : "You may not run this free version of Sybase on a system for which a more expensive version of Sybase exists". ie. SCO. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message