Re: [newbie] irix on SGI Indy

roberson@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Walter Roberson) wrote in
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Hmmm, we can't tell from that whether it was a legal upgrade to 6.2
or not. If the previous owner was authorized to upgrade it to 6.2,
then there are circumstances under which the owner would not
necessarily have had individual CDs for that machine (e.g., the owner
had several machines under support and had arranged to only have one
CD set shipped.) If the upgrade was authorized, *and* there was a
valid transfer of the software in accordance to the SGI license
agreement (you would have had to sign a piece of paper agreeing to
uphold the license) then you would still be authorized to run 6.2, but
if the license transfer conditions were not followed to the letter,
then you probably don't have any legal right to run IRIX at all...

Do you mean I should net even use the original IRIX 5.3 shipped with the
Indy because it is not licensed to me ???
amazing !

I note, though, that your address appears to be in France. At least
-parts- of the EU (Germany and Denmark are the ones I know) have
laws that override the SGI license transfer terms. I never managed to
find out of that was an EU law or of it was country-specific. Possibly
you have rights to run the software even without having followed
SGI's procedures.

Yes, you're right, I'm from France !
The guy who gave me the Indy told me he worked on Maya, a raytracing
software used on post-production for special effects on movies, if I
understood well...

SGI Europe had (I don't know if they still do) a policy of supplying
IRIX CDs according to the latest version of IRIX recorded as having
been registered for the equipment. SGI North America does NOT have
that policy. If you are in the EU, then Ian Mapleson knows current
conditions much better than I do.

We didn't sign any paper : if he didn't gave me the indy, he put it on
trash... So it's not a commercial transfert, and I don't have any
papers, exept original CDs I mentioned (IRIX 5.3 and dev tools)

--
Rico

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