> Is it legal to copy and distribute Solaris?
Actually it is not if you will use it on a computer with 9 or more CPUs.
Otherwise you can download it for free from sun.com or free.com and use it
on a computer with up to 9 CPUs, I don't think that you'll have any
problems
finding one like that :)
If you visit the following URL you can see for yourself:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/
This is an excerpt from above link:
> Welcome to the Free Solaris Binary License Program!
>
> Thanks for your interest and welcome to the Free Solaris
> Binary License Program. Now you can >use the .com-grade SolarisT 8
Operating
> Environment at home or at work -without paying a license fee. For >only
the
> cost of media and shipping, you can use the software on an unlimited
number
> of computers with a >capacity of 8 or fewer CPUs. To participate in the
> program, continue through the following pages and you will >be registered,
> licensed, and authorized to purchase the SolarisT 8 media kit (if
> necessary).
You have to purchase media kit for $75 in which case you get Solaris and
few
other CDs full of Utils and other software with manuals, or you can just
download it for free, just like with Linux distributions. You can get SPARC
or Intel version. Source code is supposed to be available in the third
quarter of 2000.
Dnd.
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