On Sunday, October 24, 2010, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:53 AM, St?phane Tsacas
<stephane.tsacas at gmail.com> wrote:
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.
This isn't true at all. The last time I read the license agreement that
popped up booting my S/390's service element, it required you to
transfer the LIC with the machine. It certainly didn't allow you to
keep the LIC if you got rid of the machine, nor did it require you to
destroy the copy of the LIC if you transferred the machine to someone
else.
Pat
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