On Thursday, June 02, 2011 10:00:02 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > Every new Mac comes with a fully licensed copy of OSX. If you can get it > to boot on a Commodore 64, you're still complying with the license :)
Very unlikely. You would need to look at the licence terms to see what it allows - you cannot just do whatever you like with software just because you got a licenced copy. Even copying bits of the operating system onto the 5.25" floppy or the audio cassette, so you could load it onto the C64, would very likely be outside the licence. On Thursday 02 June 2011 13:49:21 Jam wrote: > Actually the fine print gets you: "bla bla only on mac branded hardware bla > bla" Well there you go, Mac hardware only. > leading the hackintosh community to ponder if you manage to purchase a > version of OS-X and if you stick the white ears in the packaging on your > hardware ... untested in court :-) That would be a decidedly unhappy way to test such things. To begin with, it is only Mac branded if the label was affixed to identify the equipment as originating from the trademark owner. Clearly an end user would not be sticking the white ears on for that purpose. Additionally it would take a court about a microsecond to read in the implication that it was only *genuine* Mac branded hardware that was covered. The position is very likely different in the United States. Regards, Troy Rollo Solicitor Parry Carroll Commercial Lawyers Direct: (02) 8257 3177 Fax: (02) 9221 1375 Switch: (02) 9221 3899 E-mail: t...@parrycarroll.com.au Web: www.parrycarroll.com.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation This message and any attachments are confidential to Parry Carroll. If you have received it my mistake, please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system. You must not copy the message, alter it or disclose its contents to anyone. Thank you. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
