[xen-discuss] Has anyone tried installing Mac OS 10.5 into an vXM machine?

[Andrew Chester]

Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:32:03PM -0400, Andrew Chester wrote:
>   
>> You mean besides that installing MacOS on non-apple hardware is against 
>> the Service License Agreement?
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/macosx.html
>>
>> Section 2A
>> "This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple 
>> Software on a single *Apple-labeled computer* at a time."
>>     
>
>
> IANAL, but in English the above means that if you have more than one
> Apple-labeled computer, you are only allowed by this License to have a
> copy of the Apple software on one of them at a time, and only allowed by
> this License to have one copy on that one Apple-labeled computer, and
> does not seem to address non-Apple-labeled computers at all.  Whatever
> "Apple-labeled" means in this context, since MacOS can be running and is
> now running on all sorts of PC-compatible hardware.
>
> It may mean something else in lawyerese.  Or it may just be badly
> written.
>
> Or it may be starting from a basis of everything being prohibited, so
> that rights must be explicitly added, but there are all sorts of legal
> things that make any absolute anything [e.g. prohibition] not as
> absolute as one might think.
>
>
>   
I'm not a lawyer either but Sun does have lawyers so I'd have one of 
them look into it before trying it on non-apple hardware.

Not that I've ever heard of apple really enforcing this, but it does 
look like Apple reserves all rights in the first section. I mean this is 
the whole reason the OSX86 project is around, or was created; then again 
I don't know if a lawyer ever looked into it.  

"The software (including Boot ROM code), documentation and any fonts 
accompanying this License whether on disk, in read only memory, on any 
other media or in any other form (collectively the "Apple Software") are 
licensed, not sold, to you by Apple Inc. ("Apple") for use only under 
the terms of this License, and Apple reserves all rights not expressly 
granted to you."
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