Joseph S D Yao wrote:
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:32:03PM -0400, Andrew Chester wrote:
You mean besides that installing MacOS on non-apple hardware is against
the Service License Agreement?
http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/macosx.html
Section 2A
"This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple
Software on a single *Apple-labeled computer* at a time."
IANAL, but in English the above means that if you have more than one
Apple-labeled computer, you are only allowed by this License to have a
copy of the Apple software on one of them at a time, and only allowed by
this License to have one copy on that one Apple-labeled computer, and
does not seem to address non-Apple-labeled computers at all. Whatever
"Apple-labeled" means in this context, since MacOS can be running and is
now running on all sorts of PC-compatible hardware.
There has been some discussion over this. A while ago, Apple changed the
license for OS X *Server* (so not plain OS X) to read:
"This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Mac OS X
Server software (the “Mac OS X Server Software”) on a single
Apple-labeled computer. You may also install and use other copies of Mac
OS X Server Software on the same Apple-labeled computer, provided that
you acquire an individual and valid license from Apple for each of these
other copies of Mac OS X Server Software."
This could be taken to mean that you can install OS X Server under a
virtual machine on an "Apple-labeled computer". But, who knows what it
actually means.
In any case, the machine mentioned in the original email (an Ultra 24)
is definitely not an Apple-labeled computer, so the point is moot; it
would be a violation of the SLA to install OS X under Xen on it.
- Frank
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