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From: tim@callan.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: MSDOS/UNIX Sources
Message-ID: <293@callan.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 17:37:54 EST
Article-I.D.: callan.293
Posted: Thu Jan 24 17:37:54 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jan-85 05:10:41 EST
References: <7411@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2229@nsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@callan.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Callan Data Systems, Westlake Village, CA
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Summary: 

In article <2229@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala) writes:
>AT&T licensing is on a per CPU license. Those 40-80 hackers all need to be
>able to share a single computer, or do something to allow multiple CPU's
>(#2 is, I believe $16K, #3-n $1k under contractors provisions). Otherwise,
>you're STILL illegal.
>

How are multi-CPU computers gonna fit in?  Will it really cost
more to get a source license for an N cpu system, when they
are running as one computer?

Imagine the kludges needed for a company that can only afford one
source license!  I can see it now...

open( some args... )
{
	.
	.
	.
	if ( ip->st_mode & S_SRCFILE )
		p->p_srccnt++;
	.
	.
}

sched()
{
	.
	.
	if ( p->p_srccnt )
		if ( available[SRCCPU] == NO )
			goto schedloop;		/*
						 * Every vital kernel routine
						 * is required to have a goto!
						 */
		else
			cpu = SRCCPU;
	else
		cpu = select_cpu();
	.
	.
}

:-)

And how do networks fit in?  The machines I am on at Callan are
hooked up with Ethernet.  When I am going to edit a source file,
I usually copy it from the development system to my office system.
I also compile it and test it on my office system.
Then, when I am done with it, I send it back and rm it from my system.
Is this a violation of the license?

And how about smart terminals?  Suppose I had an editor that down-
loaded the file to be edited into the terminal, and the editing
is done by the terminal, with the changes uploaded to the host?
Does this violate the license?
-- 
Duty Now for the Future
					Tim Smith
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