SGI IRIX licenses?

[David Griffith]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, John Foust wrote:

> At 05:04 PM 6/1/2007, Jules Richardson wrote:
> >I do recall feeding keys into the OS (6.5.3) for certain high-end video software many years ago though, so certainly some *apps* are crippled without appropriate licences (how easy it would be to circumvent that, I don't know)
>
> I unloaded a bunch of IRIX-related CDs on eBay a half-dozen years ago.
> They sold well.  Maybe media was in short supply back then.
>
> Each SGI does have a unique serial number that can be queried
> from software, so some third-party packages did handshake an
> installation key.  IRIX doesn't do it, as far as I remember.
> You might discover that some sold-separately SGI software
> might use it, though.  By now, I imagine it's well-hacked.

MIPSpro (SGI's compilers) are the only things on the install CDs that use
keys IIRC.  One should be just fine installing gcc and friends from
pkgsrc.

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David Griffith
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