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/
