From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29549 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2002 10:05:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 29471 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2002 10:05:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.sunflower.com) (24.124.0.128) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Apr 2002 10:05:33 -0000 Received: from amanda (dv193s32.lawrence.ks.us [24.124.32.193]) by smtp.sunflower.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3LA5Yv19132 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 05:05:34 -0500 From: "Doug Wyatt" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 03:31:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP? Reply-to: dwyatt@sunflower.com Message-ID: <3CC24897.10238.884BE175@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: References: <4471243492.20020421095401@familiehaase.de> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01137.txt.bz2 > You wrote in <4471243492.20020421095401@familiehaase.de> > in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:54:01 +0200: > > > > Microsoft's XP license agreement says, "Except as otherwise permitted > > > by the NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop features > > > described below, you may not use the Product to permit any Device to > > > use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the > > > Workstation Computer, nor may you permit any Device to use, access, > > > display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device > > > has a separate license for the Product." > > > > > That means using any software other than Microsoft's to view an XP > > > desktop from Windows 2000 or any other operating system would violate > > > the company's license agreement, in case you care. > > > > That is not correct, you can use whatever software you want to as long > > as your 'Device' has a XP license. > > I've not read the full licence for XP but this passage taken alone > would suggest that you need an extra licence for a monitor. After all, > it's a separate device that displays the software and the UI. ;-) > > -- > Sam Edge > Or, Web servers which download Java, Javascript and ASP's. What concerns me is the the apparent stricture on any non-MS remote access to one's own PC via sshd! I guess this would even make PCAnywhere connections from a non-XP host illegal w/o an additional XP license. Doug -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/