[rescue] SunOS 4

[Ron Pool]

On 1/6/25 Andrew Back said:
> IIRC the FlexLM licenses are locked to a particular Host ID, which of course can be changed provided that doesn't upset anything else (such as another license!) At least this was the case with the Sun tools we purchased with Solaris 2.4.
> Though I also seem to recall hearing that at some time after the tools stopped being sold, keys were published for them which would work with any Host ID. Assuming this is true and not a false memory, I have no idea which versions of what this was for!

Some non-expiring licenses can be found at https://archive.org/details/suncomp-lic for Sun WorkShop for:
* Solaris 2.x, SPARC Platform Edition, V5N1, EN/JA
* Sun WorkShop for Solaris 2.x, Intel Platform Edition, V5N1, EN/JA
* Sun WorkShop 5.0, SPARC Platform Edition, V6N1, EN/JA
* Sun WorkShop 5.0, Intel Platform Edition, V6N1, EN/JA

The license files there are:
704-5468-10-ws3.0_j-sparc.txt  02-Nov-2019 13:39  4.4K
704-5482-10-ws3.0_j-intel.txt  02-Nov-2019 13:39  3.5K
704-6269-10-ws5.0_j-sparc.txt  02-Nov-2019 13:39  4.9K
704-6288-10-ws5.0_j-intel.txt  02-Nov-2019 13:39  3.8K

I don't remember where I originally found this note on how to use those non-expiring licenses, but I'm sharing
it here in case it helps someone:

----- beginning of about licenses.txt -----
SUN WORKSHOP NON-EXPIRING DEMO LICENSES

WORKSHOP 3.0 alias "Sun Visual WorkShop C++ 3.0" (incl. C/C++ 4.2)
http://escimo.lima-city.de/sun/ws3.0_sparc.txt
http://escimo.lima-city.de/sun/ws3.0_intel.txt

WORKSHOP 5.0 alias "Sun Visual WorkShop C++ 5.0" (incl. C/C++ 5.0)
http://escimo.lima-city.de/sun/ws5.0_sparc.txt
http://escimo.lima-city.de/sun/ws5.0_intel.txt

(*) One of the products on the product media (CD-ROM) was named "Sun Visual WorkShop C++ 3.0" although IST's X-Designer was of version "2.0". Nevertheless the product CD-ROM itself belongs to Sun WorkShop 4.0 alias "Sun WorkShop for Solaris 2.x". Crazy versioning!    The following products have reached End of Life (EOL) and End of Service Life (EOSL). These products are no longer supported by Sun Microsystems(...)

    How to install demo licenses

    As a reminder, these products are no longer supported by Sun Microsystems, (...)

    Please do not try to install demo licenses with a FLEXlm license manager tool, i.e: lit, lit_tty and do not add the demo licenses to the /etc/opt/licenses/licenses_combined file

    The following steps will help you install the demo license:

    * Copy the demo license lines into a readable text file.
    * Remove all meta keys such as ^M, line break and \ from this text file if any. Each license line should be represented in one physical line and should not be split up. The license lines should begin with INCREMENT and end with "DEMO" token. Please do not add SERVER or DAEMON lines into this text file.
    * Name the text file "sunpro.lic,<id>" with <id> being a unique identifier for the file within the directory. For example: sunpro.lic,node or sunpro.lic,demo or sunpro.lic,demo1.
    * Put the file in directory /<basedir>/SUNWspro/license_dir with <basedir> being the base directory of the appropriate Workshop or Forte Developer product. i.e:
    /opt/SUNWspro/license_dir/sunpro.lic,demo
    /workshop5/SUNWspro/license_dir/sunpro.lic,demo
    /forte6/SUNWspro/license_dir/sunpro.lic,demo

    With the release of Sun Developer software, Sun ONE Studio 4 to the current release of Sun Studio 11, the software does not use FLEXlm licensing technology. Please refer to Sun's main Software website for Sun Developer software information.
----- end of about licenses.txt -----

In a thread at https://gainos.org/~elf/sgi/nekonomicon/forum/17/16728312/1.html there is a question if the non-expiring
Workshop 3 demo license would also work on SunOS 4 (Solaris 1.x). for SPARCompiler 3.0.1 etc.  No one in that thread
Reported trying out that license on SunOS 4.

Copies of WorkShop 5 and 6 (and a bunch of other versions) can be found at https://osarchive.org/os/sunos_solaris/Apps/Compiler .
There's a lot of other SunOS/Solaris stuff on the same server -- move up the hierarchy there to find them.

                                 -- Ron