From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11354 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2002 07:54:58 -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 11285 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2002 07:54:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO loreley.antigone.familiehaase.de) (145.254.129.143) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Apr 2002 07:54:54 -0000 Received: from LORELEY (192.168.1.1) by LORELEY with [XMail 1.8 (Win32/Ix86) ESMTP Server] id for from ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:54:12 +0200 Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 00:56:00 -0000 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <4471243492.20020421095401@familiehaase.de> To: Doug Wyatt CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP? In-Reply-To: <3CC21265.9785.87782974@localhost> References: <3CC21265.9785.87782974@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01132.txt.bz2 Hallo Doug, > The following excerpt is from Brian Livingston's 'Windows Manager' > column, 18Mar2002: > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/03/18/020318oplivingston.xml > I'm wondering if, in addition to possibly forbidding the use of VNC, > this might also forbid installing Cygwin on WinXP and then using a > remote connection to the WinXP PC with Cygwin's telnetd, rlogind, > rshd, sshd or any X-Windows type of interface, unless you also have > a WinXP license for the computer at the other end of the connection. Cygwin is legal under XP. But it is illegal to connect from a remote Device if you don't have a XP license for that remote Device. That's it. And that is true for every executable which runs on a XP workstation. But hey, who wants to use a workstation as server? Lets wait what new tweaks they write into the new .NET Server license;) > I know this might be considered OT, but I thought it was worth > raising the issue. I don't think that it is OT. > From the article: [...] > 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. [...] Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/