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Standard User Taub
(member) Thu 27-Aug-09 20:15:24
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Legal issues with Leopard


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I'm not sure on the legality of what I'm about to ask, or whether it'll actually be possible, but I thought I'd ask regardless wink

Tomorrow I hope to go out and purchase Snow Leopard for my MacBook, which currently runs Leopard. My mother has my old iBook G4 which runs Tiger. Would it be possible to install Leopard on her iBook using my old Leopard discs? Is doing so legal, bearing in mind I'll no longer be running Leopard?

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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Thu 27-Aug-09 20:36:31
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Re: Legal issues with Leopard


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How much RAM has she got? Less than 1Gb and I wouldn't bother.
Standard User ian_c
(knowledge is power) Thu 27-Aug-09 20:42:17
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Re: Legal issues with Leopard


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No, but there isn't really anything to stop you (except your jolly old sense of British fair play, old chap) (and the RAM in the old machine).

My Gen 1 mini does a nice job as a media server running Leopard with half a gig - but I'm not sure I'd fancy doing real work on it.

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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Thu 27-Aug-09 20:44:51
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Re: Legal issues with Leopard


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I wouldn't want to clutter the iBook with Leopard as it's never been the snappiest of beasts. Stick with Tiger.
Standard User Taub
(member) Thu 27-Aug-09 20:56:55
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1GB AFAIK.

Only a 40GB HD, though.

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(deleted) Thu 27-Aug-09 20:58:01
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Re: Legal issues with Leopard


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A Mini with 1/2 Gig isn't really good for interactive work. I run Leopard on such a setup, but only because I want to use XCode 3. Now that I've got Leopard running in a VMware virtual machine on my PC I may revert the Mini back to the original OS - it was a lot snappier then.
Moderator billford
(moderator) Thu 27-Aug-09 21:43:59
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Re: Legal issues with Leopard


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In reply to a post by Taub:
Is doing so legal, bearing in mind I'll no longer be running Leopard?
I am not a lawyer, but I'd guess...

If the Snow Leopard you're buying is an upgrade then "No". If it's a clean install then "Probably".

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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Fri 28-Aug-09 11:31:14
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Re: Legal issues with Leopard


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You can't sell or move your old licence when you get an upgrade edition. You don't have a standalone version of Snow Leopard and so you will always need the Leopard discs to install Snow Leopard.
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