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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:02:34 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
Cc:        Stuart Krivis <stuart@krivis.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sybase/linux 
Message-ID:  <199809251702.KAA03961@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:14:58 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980925091035.7324D-100000@cole.salk.edu> 

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> > > > 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.

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