24 Oct
2010
24 Oct
'10
7:03 p.m.
This is not correct. I have this about the LIC code
"Licensee may transfer possession of Machine Code and its media to
another party only with the transfer of the Machine for which that
Machine Code is authorized. In the event of such transfer, Licensee
agrees to 1) destroy all of Licensee?s copies of that Machine Code that
were not provided by IBM, 2) either provide to the other party all
Licensee?s IBM-provided copies of Machine Code or destroy them, 3)
provide to the other party a copy of this License Agreement, and 4)
provide to the other party all user documentation. IBM licenses the
other party to use Machine Code when that party accepts the terms of
this License Agreement and is the rightful possessor of the associated
Machine."
In other words, any 'rightful possessor' can run the LIC, and the LIC
has to go with the machine or be destroyed. Otherwise how could all the
people who sell used mainframes operate?!
The last sentences are my friend's comment.
The OS's unless they are Linux may not be transferred which may be what
you are thinking. IBM does not have police running around enforcing the
rule on the OS images, but any entity with a license is on the hook for
a lot of trouble if you don't erase an OS for them if you find it as well.
On 10/24/2010 7:11 AM, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:53 AM, St?phane
Tsacas<stephane.tsacas at gmail.com> wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220685200658
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220685200658>
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP390G1.html
Do be
advised that if you should obtain one of these, it is illegal for you to operate it in any
way. The microcode, which IBM calls the LIC or Licensed Internal Code, is licensed only
for the use of the original purchaser and only on the specific machine and configuration
as IBM delivered it. Any other usage by any other party is unlicensed and illegal.
IBM vigorously prosecutes these, so all machines sold on eBay will missing the LIC and
therefore inoperable. If you are somehow able to obtain one with the LIC intact you are
pirating a several million dollar product. The fines will not be pretty, assuming you
don't do years instead.