ACL on Linux (Re: Testing the waters. )

[Mike McDonald]

>From: "Vassili Bykov" <vbykov@cam.org>
>To: "Kelly Murray" <kem@franz.com>
>Subject: Re: ACL on Linux (Re: Testing the waters. )
>Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 15:42:29 -0400
>
>> From: Kelly Murray <kem@Franz.COM>
>> To: Pierpaolo Bernardi <bernardp@CLI.DI.Unipi.IT>
>> Cc: lispos@math.gatech.edu
>> Subject: ACL on Linux (Re: Testing the waters. )
>> Date: Monday, May 12, 1997 3:23 PM
>> 
>> > BTW, can you update us on the ACL/Linux license status?  The present
>> > license for ACL/Linux expires on 30 Dec 1997.  Has Franz decided what
>> > will happen after that?
>> 
>> What does this mean?  I've not heard of this before. 
>> You mean the system will cease to boot on Jan 1, 1998?
>
>Here is what the license says:
>
>9.  TERMINATION.  The license granted hereunder is effective until
>terminated or until Jan. 1, 1998, whichever comes first.  You may terminate
>it at any time by destroying the Software.  This license will terminate
>automatically if you fail to comply with the limitations described above.
>On termination, you must destroy all copies of the Software.  The
>termination of your license will not result in the termination of the
>licenses of any distributees who have received rights to the Software
>through you so long as they are in compliance with the provisions of this
>Agreement.
>

  This seems to imply that the termination only applies to those of us
who got their CD directly from Franz. Sounds like we need to have a
big CD swap at Christmas so that we all are "distributees".

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac@engr.sgi.com