Legality of MOL on non-Apple HW

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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 06:18:47PM -0700, strobe anarkhos wrote:
> Is it legal to run MacOS on non-Apple licensed hardware?
> 
> This has not been an issue in the past since other than 
> a handful of BeBoxen all PowerPC-based PCs have been
> licensed to run MacOS by Apple. 

This is a difficult question. Apple's "shrink wrap" Software
License accompanying MacOS states (I think) that the 
computer must be Apple branded or Apple licensed. The legal 
status of this kind of agreements seem to be in doubt though.
Which country you live in might be a factor here.

> However various non-Apple PowerPC PCs will soon be in the 
> market...

Well, I'd say that this remains to be seen :-).

> ... and it ought to be clear whether it will be legal 
> to run MacOS (via MOL) on them. 

Agreed.


Cheers,

/Samuel