camz@passageway.com wrote:
vasdev <> vasdev_vs@hotmail.com> > wrote:
consider if i install QNX on Self Hosted & thro telnet i acess it on more
than 5 machines.Do i require licenses for 5m/cs ? is there any restictions
(license) to acess thro telnet.( i wonder it isn’t as i could connect at
least on 2 m/cs, i am yet to try on other).If i can do this, then i can take
one license & 5 peoiple can use it thro telnet. Is it legal ? i feel QSSL
should restrict using like this by some licence key etc ( Please see that i
am talking about Self hosted)
[rant mode on]
Technically that would be cheating. If you have 5 developers then buy 5
development licenses. If you are building a product that uses QNX at its
core, it makes no sense to try and rip off the company that will support you.
No… you can (and one does) do the same thing with TCP/IP licenses for QNX 4.
How many TCP/IP licenses does a 5 node QNX system “need”? Licensing answer,
“5”, practical answer, “1” 
The impact is that you will (may) suffer performance degradation, both on the
TCP/IP front, and on the gcc CPU front
Consider this – you have a C compiler licensed on one node; you have 50 developers.
If they’re all comfortable with building their project on node 1, well, that’s
fine. If not, they’ll need 50 licenses.
You can abuse licensing in all OS’s if you really want. Its a pretty common
practice to have a single maching configured to do a nightly build of all the
source for a project. Its trivial to extend that model to a build on demand
model where you write the code on any kind of machine you want, submit it to
the build server and then trigger a build. Hell, the clients don’t even have
to be the same OS. This works in for development in windows, unix, and qnx.
If you REALLY want to cheat, nothing will stop you. But it you do, I hope
you have trouble sleeping at night. It does not make sense to put QSS into
a position where they are not recieving revenue, remember if your product
depends on the QNX OS, you have a vested interest in keeping QSS around and
healthy. Ripping them off for developement seats doesn’t accomplish that.
Dunno about that, see above
I sleep pretty well with just one TCP/IP license.
Cheers,
-RK
[rant mode off]
Cheers,
Camz.
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