Question about Licenses

Hello,
A friend of mine has the opportunity to work as a freelance graphic designer for some company.
He has a students edition of Photoshop. Can he use that version to make designs for that company (so can he use it for commercial purposes) or is that not allowed?
He wanted to ask this directly to adobe, but it seems impossible to talk directly to adobe. There used to be a chat option, to speak with an adobe collaborator, but we cannot find it anywhere...
Can anyone help us out?
Thank you,
Eneas

Thank you, Ned.
So just to be sure. He is not a student anymore, but he purchased it when he was a student. That doesn't make any difference?
Thank you.
Kind Regards,
Eneas

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I am new on these themes.I have to install a server with Oracle 10g. I suggested to my client they have to buy the license for Oracle.
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David

Licensing costs are associated to production systems. They are also based on a combination of number of CPU and base price scenarios. If you are talking about Oracle Lite, then you will need a license for Oracle Enterprise Edition, Oracle Mobile Server, and possibly Oracle Application Server... or WebLogic server(This is suppose to be supported in the new year).

Question about licensing a project under GPL

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[Solved] Question about licensing

Hello all,
I'm not sure if this is the right section, but I thought this at least fits better than the Programming subforum.
I am currently working on a volumeicon meant to be in the system tray. Initially, I started out with Fogobogo's gtk-vol which is licensed under the BSD license.
However, the code has now substantially changed. I would go so far as to say that I only kept some function and variable names, other than that you won't see the relation between the two programs. But still, my code is based on it. Thus, my question: do I need to include the BSD license or am I now free to use whatever license I want? (GPL) Or: should/could I use both?
For the record, in the initial program, Fogobogo did not state the usual Copyright (C) Fogobogo 2011. Does this matter any?
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by Unia (2013-07-17 13:35:33)

Unia wrote:For the record, in the initial program, Fogobogo did not state the usual Copyright (C) Fogobogo 2011. Does this matter any?
This doesn't matter at all. There used to be a requirement for such a notification, but that has long since been removed. Copyright is now implied.
If there was any doubt, the copyright is clearly asserted by providing a license (BSD in this case).
But a more fundamental question is why you would want to cheat someone out of their due credit. You seem to be talking of formalities of how much the code has changed - this seems to focus too much on the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law (actually it may violate the letter of the law too). If fogobogo's work was a noteworthy inspiration for your own, that should be noted. Legality is only one issue, giving credit to the work that inspired/guided/helped you along the way is just the right thing do do.
Take a look at my copyright notice in alopex for example. N. Welch (TinyWM) is the only one I took any actual code from, and there probably isn't any of it actually left - but it was the starting point on which I build everything else. It was bootstrap code: I started with that, added a lot, then removed most of what was initially there. The point is, though, that without Nick's code, I would have never been able to write alopex. Also he has released TinyWM into the public domain, so I have no official requirement to acknowledge him at all, even if I kept all of his code. I also credit dwm and i3 authors - I didn't use any actual code directly from those projects, though I studied dwm's code and in inspired the general structure of my code - I never even looked at i3's code, there's just too much of it.
You're asking what you can do - but just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Err on the side of giving credit to those whose work has contributed to your own, then you be doing the right thing and you'll be pretty much ensured to be 'legal'.
If it were me, I'd use both licenses with the simple note that some of the code originated from, or was inspired by fogobogo's project licensed under the BSD license.
Last edited by Trilby (2013-07-10 12:33:13)

A question about license date validity during OS migration: AIX to Linux

Dear all,
I would appreciate if you could kindly give us
your advice about the following issue.
We have an environment dedicated for training. The environment was
initially installed on AIX platform. However, after a while the
technical direction decided to migrate to Linux.
The migration was done at 18 September 2009, and during this process
the very date was chosen and designated by SAP to be the
valid start date of the new SAP license.
Now, our problem is, that the data programmed in this SAP envionment
(used for training) is not compatible with the current date. In
order to make them work properly, the host system date must always be
set to the last year (this is because we had unfortunately some delay for
the migration).
It is fundamental to remark, that currently, we are absolutely not able to
modify the data and the sole solution (although not the best one) to
tackle this problem is to modify the operating system's date. This is
precisely how we proceeded, but unfortunately we encountered a SAP license
check problem during logon.
As I explained, the migration from AIX to Linux was performed at
18 September 2009, which means, this was the date for the new license.
Yet, we need to go further in the past and to choose 24th July 2008.
On the operating system, of course, there is no problem and the
administrator can modify the host date with the appropriate date, but
on the other hand, by choosing this date, we are no more able to work
within this SAP environment. At the logon time, we receive a license
check error, which is normal, because the host date (24th July 2009) is anterior
than the start date for the SAP license (18 September 2009).
Also, we cannot ask for another license, because we will have the same problem,
they never create a license dated for the last year, and they always create an
up-to-date license.
Could you kindly guide us how we can manage to solve this issue?
Thanks in advance,
Kind Regards,
Dariyoosh

I think you're better off opening an OSS message in this particular case.
Regards
Juan

Questions about licenses - How to get them back?

Hey Guys!
For maybe a year ago I bought Logic Pro 9 in App Store. And if I got it right, I have 5 licenses - right?
So I installed it on my partners Mac, my iMac, and my two MacBooks. (That gives me one licens back).
If I later decides to sell one of my computers, is there a way to get the licens back? (So i have two)
Maybe by deleting the program or even format the computer.? Or do I have to buy it again? What to do?
Looking forward to hear from you guys! :-)
Kind Regards
Mathias Thunbo - Denmark.

What makes you think you have 5 licenses? Did you purchase a volume license? Or are you referring to the "install on all Macs you own and control"?
If you are referring to the limit of 5 with iTunes, that is iTunes (music/video content) and has nothing to do with software applications purchased/downloaded from the Mac App Store.
Here is an excerpt of the SLA:
2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, unless you obtained the Apple Software under a volume license, maintenance or other written agreement from Apple, you are granted a limited non-transferable license to install and use the Apple Software only on Apple-branded computers that you own or control in accordance with the Mac App Store Product Usage Rules located at: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/ (“Mac Usage Rules”). Except as permitted under the Mac Usage Rules, you may not distribute or make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple devices at the same time. You may not rent, lease, lend, sell, transfer, redistribute or sublicense the Apple Software.
You can download the entire thing here:
http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#APPS
As far as I know, you cannot give/sell the license to someone else if/when you sell your Mac. The license is tied to your Apple ID and (I believe) not transferable. Applications sold in the app store not only have the store terms attached to them, but the individual software license agreements as well.

Simple question about license...

I wonder, when I must pay Oracle for use Enterprise version?? I know that when my employer wants to sold database another company, that this company must pay. But when I work on this version for tests in my job then I must pay or not?? And what is when I wark on Enterprise version in my house..
Thank you for help :)

See this thread:
Oracle Database 12.0 OTN dev license trial terms
and
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/index.html
"All software downloads are free, and each comes with a Development License that allows you to use full versions of the products only while developing and prototyping your applications (or for strictly self-educational purposes). In some cases, certain downloads (such as Beta releases) have licenses with slightly different terms."
and
of course the most offcial
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/htdocs/devlic.html
So I'd say (but it is only my opiniion!) in your house you can freely learn, but in your work you have to licence test environment.
Gints Plivna
http://www.gplivna.eu

3 questions about the evalution license ?

Hi - I have some questions about the Weblogic Server Eval license.
Before I start let me just say I'm not trying to rip BEA off, I just
want to know what's possible.
1. Firstly what happens after the 30 days does the server just not
work or only work in a restricted form ? If restricted, how so ?
2. I read that the eval edition will only access 3 unique IP
addresses. I intend to have WL running on a RedHat linux box whilst
the pages are served by IIS on a W2K box (both machines are on our
internal LAN). Am I going to be able to do this with the eval license
? I'm not quite sure what the 3 IP addresses refer to ...
3. Do I need anything super-strong in the way of a Linux box to run
this on ? I've got an old Pentium with 32Mb of RAM in it. I can't see
a "minimum spec" on the BEA site. Bear in mind it's not to do any
"real" work just to give the thing a run around the block ?
4. When the Eval license is dead what's the minimum amount a small s/w
house would pay for a licence to develop under (US (or anywhere)
prices will do I just want a ballpark).
Sorry that was 4 questions ;-). I'd appreciate any information you
have to share.
Thanks
Richard Shea.

1)The server won't start if the license expires.
2)The 3 unique IP'S refer to the number of clients that can access the
server. It means that WLS will server requests coming from 3 different
ip's at most. A request coming froma 4th client with a different ip will
be rejected.
3)I guess 32 MB's is relatively less The default scripts always use 64 MB
exclusively for the JVM . Having 32mb RAM means that a part of it will be
used by t he Operating System and other Applications. You might experience
OutOfmemory errors and slow performance
4)email [email protected] and they should be able to handle this
Yeshwant
Richard Shea wrote:
Hi - I have some questions about the Weblogic Server Eval license.
Before I start let me just say I'm not trying to rip BEA off, I just
want to know what's possible.
1. Firstly what happens after the 30 days does the server just not
work or only work in a restricted form ? If restricted, how so ?
2. I read that the eval edition will only access 3 unique IP
addresses. I intend to have WL running on a RedHat linux box whilst
the pages are served by IIS on a W2K box (both machines are on our
internal LAN). Am I going to be able to do this with the eval license
? I'm not quite sure what the 3 IP addresses refer to ...
3. Do I need anything super-strong in the way of a Linux box to run
this on ? I've got an old Pentium with 32Mb of RAM in it. I can't see
a "minimum spec" on the BEA site. Bear in mind it's not to do any
"real" work just to give the thing a run around the block ?
4. When the Eval license is dead what's the minimum amount a small s/w
house would pay for a licence to develop under (US (or anywhere)
prices will do I just want a ballpark).
Sorry that was 4 questions ;-). I'd appreciate any information you
have to share.
Thanks
Richard Shea.

Dear Customer Service Team, I bought a twelve-month Dreamweaver CC program with monthly payment that I have paid via bank transfer and there would be a question about the activation. How could I get the license key with which I can activate my account? I

Dear Customer Service Team,
I bought a twelve-month Dreamweaver CC program with monthly payment that I have paid via bank transfer and there would be a question about the activation. How could I get the license key with which I can activate my account? I can not find it and now I only have access to the trial version.
Thank you for your help in advance.
Kind Regards,
G. Zsolt

There is no serial number require for Creative Cloud products, you may activate the products using your email address and password which is associated with Adobe. If your Dreamweaver asking for serial number, then make sure you are signing in with correct email address.
You may also refer below link
Sign in, activation, or connection errors | CS5.5 and later

Questions about Feature Licenses for 1800, 2800, 3800, 2900, 3900 series ISRs

Hey all,
I have a question about feature licensing for Cisco ISR 1800, 2800, 3800, 2900 series. I know there are differences between all of the series. My main question which applies for all the Cisco ISR series is this:
"If I want to upgrade the IOS to a newer version and upgrade from the basic feature set, do I need to get a license from Cisco? "
If yes:
And if so, how do I go about purchasing a license? Is a support contract needed?
Again, I need to know for each Cisco ISR series. I'd appreciate any help on this.
Thanks,
John

You probably want to reach your SE/AM about this so they can explain you exactly how this works, maybe some sales material, or you can also reach pre-sales.

A question about Oracle 1g R2 Enterprise Edition license

Dear all,
I have a question about Oracle license and I would appreciate if you could kindly help me.
I have installed an Oracle server (11g R2 Enterprise edition) on a linux virtual machine. The pc used for this purpose
is my enterprise laptop (therefore a professional and not a personal Computer). However, I use the this Oracle Server
only for learning purpose, that is, only for running the examples in my Oracle Press books (SQL, PL/SQL and some
administration tasks) just for learning the stuff.
There is absolutely no data related to my enterprise, stored or used on this server. Whenever I want to work with my
enterprise data, I use the Oracle server of the enterprise which has of course the appropriate license. So as I said, I
use this Enterprise server on the virtual machine only for running queries/programs in my Oracle Press books just for
learning and I'm the sole person who uses this server (no remote connection for other users).
The reason for which I needed to install this server on my PC was that our DBA couldn't provide a training environment
for me with all required privileges and functionalities.
Am I supposed to buy a license for this installed Enterprise server on my virtual machine?
Thanks in advance,
Dariyoosh

drop.any wrote:
From OTN license agreement:
>
LICENSE RIGHTS
We grant you a nonexclusive, nontransferable limited license to use the programs only for the purpose of developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your application, and not for any other purpose. If you use the application you develop under this license for any internal data processing or for any commercial or production purposes, or you want to use the programs for any purpose other than as permitted under this agreement, you must obtain a production release version of the program by contacting us or an Oracle reseller to obtain the appropriate license. You acknowledge that we may not produce a production release version of the program and any development efforts undertaken by you are at your own risk. We may audit your use of the programs. Program documentation, if available, may accessed online at http://otn.oracle.com/docs.
Ownership and Restrictions We retain all ownership and intellectual property rights in the programs. The programs may be installed on one computer only, and used by one person in the operating environment identified by us. You may make one copy of the programs for backup purposes.
You may not:
- use the programs for your own internal data processing or for any commercial or production purposes, or use the programs for any purpose except the development of your application;
- use the application you develop with the programs for any internal data processing or commercial or production purposes without securing an appropriate license from us;
- continue to develop your application after you have used it for any internal data processing, commercial or production purpose without securing an appropriate license from us, or an Oracle reseller;
- remove or modify any program markings or any notice of our proprietary rights;
- make the programs available in any manner to any third party;
- use the programs to provide third party training;
- assign this agreement or give or transfer the programs or an interest in them to another individual or entity; - cause or permit reverse engineering (unless required by law for interoperability), disassembly or decompilation of the programs;
- disclose results of any program benchmark tests without our prior consent.
>Hello again,
Thank you both of you for your help. As it seems to me
>
We grant you a nonexclusive, nontransferable limited license to use the programs only for the purpose of developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your application, and not for any other purpose.
>
I think self training can be considered in this category, therefore I think there is no need to buy a license for that.
Kind regards,
Dariyoosh

Question about managing application licenses together with netboot

Hello
So far I had made no experience with an MacOSX Server netboot configuration but we plan to introduce it in some weeks. Therefore we are "wondering" how management/assignment of application licenses is working in a netboot configuration. Normally in a local MacOSX configuration licenses for application are in generally assigned on the application (some are bound to a certain user name, others to the CPU ID) and is valid for all users login to the same computer. How and at which time are application licenses (for example MS Office 2004, Adobe Acrobat etc.) assigned in a netboot environment?
Many thanks in advance for any clarification and with best regards, André Müller

Hi Andre,
Is this a technical or legal question Either way it is an interesting question about a major grey-area, and I wonder if anyone has the right answer.
Boiling your question down to specifics, it could be...
I have 15 individual Photoshop serials. I want to run Photoshop off a NetBoot image for 15 simultaneous users. Can I install one serial on the image, and allow 15 users to open Photoshop simultaneously. What if I want to install the image on 20 machines, but only 15 users will ever use Photoshop simultaneously.
There is a technical answer and a legal answer to the question. I don't know if there is a 'right' answer since multi-user installations of titles that are technically possible under NetBoot may not be allowed legally under the user license agreement you committed to on breaking the seal on the software. And these agreements are different for different countries.
Here's the technial answer. Sometime before OSX server 10.0, when Apple introduced netboot technology, developers were advised not to perform network scans checking for duplicate serial numbers when aps start up.
In practice this means you can install software title on your image, activate with a serial number, and it will not conflict with the other identical versions of the same application on other images on the network.
FileMaker Pro is the only software I am aware of that doesn't play by these rules, altthough it no longer checks when the applicaton starts, but when any FMPro network activity is started.
Here's the leagl answer. It depends on the title and the country you are in. The legality is definded under the eulas for the titles concerned. I don't know if the leaglity has ever been tested in a court of law in any country in this context.
The easy way to do the right thing for some titles it to purchase a multi-user serial number, ie. a single number which will work for 5 or 10, 20, 50... etc. users. Fore example, FileMaker has a volume licensing serial number which I beleieve can be purchased in increments of 10 users. However, not all titles offer this option, though, and it's difficult if you need 12 copies and have to buy 20.
Sassafras software http://www.sassafras.com/ sells Keyserver, which may be an appropriate solution. Keyserver tracks installations and authenticates serial numbers to ensure no more than the licensed number of copies can be run at the same time.
I don't think I've answerede your question for you but hope to have expanded the contxt of the question for other suggestions.
Good luck,
b.

Questions about 3702i and WSM (WSSI)

I have several questions about the 3702i AP and the WSM that do not seem to be answered in the data sheets/documentation.
Any insight would be appreciated.
1. Is the WSM officially supported on the 3702 AP? The documentation seems to conflict on this.
For example, at the top of the WSM data sheet: "Flexible add-on third radio module for the Cisco Aironet 3600i or Cisco Aironet 3600e Series Access Points". Then later on in the page graphic shows the 3700 series radios too. I have found multiple pages that have similar conflicting information.
2. Can the WSM be used WITHOUT MSE and Cisco Prime? If so, are there any limitations?
3. How does the licensing work? Where is the license installed -- WLC, MSE, Prime? Do ANY of the features work without the license?
3a. How do you order the license? The SKU listed on the data sheet (L-WIPS-MM-1AP) is not a valid part number in CCW.
4. Is it possible to do sniffing with a WSM? (the idea being not having to dedicate an AP to sniffing, or taking down a client-serving AP to sniff)
Thank you.

Ok, so you are talking about off-channel scanning, which is actually a very short duration 50ms, that the AP is actually off-channel to scan.
http://mrncciew.com/2013/03/16/configuring-rrm/
Are you thinking of this bullet point?
Access points with wireless security module: The Cisco Aironet® Access Point Module for Wireless Security aggressively scans all channels without affecting the data-serving radios in the 2.4- and 5-GHz bands.
To me, that's just saying that the WSM is scanning and not interferring with the AP's normal radios.
HTH,
Steve

Re: Questions about Plan structure

Reply-To: "Duncan Kinnear" <[email protected]>
Q. if you have an Employee class with related EmployeeSubordinate and
EmployeeSalaryHistory classes, should these all be in the same plan?
A It is better to have them in the same plan.It depends on the design
you have
Q Why should the Managers be separated from their business classes?
A Managers are usually service objects which might require different
resources.
These managers when deployed might be required by several other
applications.
Seperating them as a different plan will help in just using one
installed partition to be
Used by different applications (refer about Reference Partition)
Q If you have the Database managers separate, what scope does each DB
manager cover?
A It is better to have the DB managers in user scope.
It depends on the numbers of users, u have for the system.
Since u are talking about 100 tables. It's a huge system.
It also depends on the user licenses u have for the backend.
Take care that u use proper load balancing of DB Managers for the
system.
Krishna CVSR
GoldStone Softech Inc
>
Hi there,
We are in the middle of designing the structure of a new system.
I have read/heard that it is best to break down the plans into the
following categories:
Business Classes
Managers/Services
Clients
I have a few questions about this structure:
Should related business classes be grouped together in Plans? E.g. if
you have an Employee class with related EmployeeSubordinate and
EmployeeSalaryHistory classes, should these all be in the same plan?
Why should the Managers be separated from their business classes?
E.g. if there is an EmployeeMgr service which deals with anything to do
with the Employee business class, why separate them in different
plans? If you need the manager to access the class, you will always
need both.
Some of the Forte documentation talks about "Policy" managers and
"Database" managers. How do the functions of these managers differ
for a simple CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) class?
If you have the Database managers separate, what scope does each
DB manager cover? I.e. do you have one for the entire database (over
100 tables in our case), or do you break it down by sub-system?
Thanks in advance for any answers.
Cheers,
Duncan Kinnear,
McCarthy and Associates, Email: [email protected]
PO Box 764, McLean Towers, Phone: +64 6 834 3360
Shakespeare Road, Napier, New Zealand. Fax: +64 6 834 3369
Providing Integrated Software to the Meat Processing Industry for over 10 years
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Reply-To: "Duncan Kinnear" <[email protected]>
Q. if you have an Employee class with related EmployeeSubordinate and
EmployeeSalaryHistory classes, should these all be in the same plan?
A It is better to have them in the same plan.It depends on the design
you have
Q Why should the Managers be separated from their business classes?
A Managers are usually service objects which might require different
resources.
These managers when deployed might be required by several other
applications.
Seperating them as a different plan will help in just using one
installed partition to be
Used by different applications (refer about Reference Partition)
Q If you have the Database managers separate, what scope does each DB
manager cover?
A It is better to have the DB managers in user scope.
It depends on the numbers of users, u have for the system.
Since u are talking about 100 tables. It's a huge system.
It also depends on the user licenses u have for the backend.
Take care that u use proper load balancing of DB Managers for the
system.
Krishna CVSR
GoldStone Softech Inc
>
Hi there,
We are in the middle of designing the structure of a new system.
I have read/heard that it is best to break down the plans into the
following categories:
Business Classes
Managers/Services
Clients
I have a few questions about this structure:
Should related business classes be grouped together in Plans? E.g. if
you have an Employee class with related EmployeeSubordinate and
EmployeeSalaryHistory classes, should these all be in the same plan?
Why should the Managers be separated from their business classes?
E.g. if there is an EmployeeMgr service which deals with anything to do
with the Employee business class, why separate them in different
plans? If you need the manager to access the class, you will always
need both.
Some of the Forte documentation talks about "Policy" managers and
"Database" managers. How do the functions of these managers differ
for a simple CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) class?
If you have the Database managers separate, what scope does each
DB manager cover? I.e. do you have one for the entire database (over
100 tables in our case), or do you break it down by sub-system?
Thanks in advance for any answers.
Cheers,
Duncan Kinnear,
McCarthy and Associates, Email: [email protected]
PO Box 764, McLean Towers, Phone: +64 6 834 3360
Shakespeare Road, Napier, New Zealand. Fax: +64 6 834 3369
Providing Integrated Software to the Meat Processing Industry for over 10 years
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Basic Questions About Compiling Source

Hi!
I have some very basic questions about compiling source on 10.6. BTW, if the unix discussions still exist, they've hidden them pretty well, so I hope I'm in the right place for this!
First off, you simply cd to the source dir, wherever it may be - in my case ~/Downloads/source/ - and during the install process, everything will be installed in its proper dir, right?
How do you know which compiler to use? There seem to be several: make, gmake, gcc, g++, etc...
Once you do figure out which compiler to run, the process is supposed to go like this, right?
./configure
make (or whatever)
make install
But this doesn't always work for me. For instance, I'm trying to compile 'arm', but it doesn't seem to have a 'configure' script.
$ ls ~/Downloads/arm
ChangeLog
README
armrc.sample
setup.py
LICENSE
arm
install
/src
Maybe it's that 'setup.py' file? What are you supposed to do?
Of course, it's not only this one that's given me trouble. Sometimes the readme will say I have to edit a certain file for my system. Are there just a few standard changes you always make? Or is it...how can I put it...complicated? How do you find out what's needed in those cases?
OS 10.6.8
Xcode 3.2.4
Python 2.7

sudont wrote:
I have some very basic questions about compiling source on 10.6. BTW, if the unix discussions still exist, they've hidden them pretty well, so I hope I'm in the right place for this!
This is the place for UNIX discussions. If you have developer-related questions, there is a forum dedicated to that as well: Developer Forums
First off, you simply cd to the source dir, wherever it may be - in my case ~/Downloads/source/ - and during the install process, everything will be installed in its proper dir, right?
Yes. Hopefully the project you want to install follows standard conventions. If so, you can do "./configure", then "make", and finally "sudo make install" to install the software into "/usr/local".
How do you know which compiler to use? There seem to be several: make, gmake, gcc, g++, etc...
The make file will figure that stuff out.
Once you do figure out which compiler to run, the process is supposed to go like this, right?
./configure
make (or whatever)
make install
Yes, with the addition of "sudo" before "make install" because "/usr/local" is owned by root.
But this doesn't always work for me. For instance, I'm trying to compile 'arm', but it doesn't seem to have a 'configure' script.
$ ls ~/Downloads/arm
ChangeLog
README
armrc.sample
setup.py
LICENSE
arm
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arm? You mean "arm (anonymizing relay monitor) - Terminal status monitor for Tor relays." You really don't want to be messing with that stuff. The only people involved with Tor that are trustworthy are US Navy intelligence who have their own uses for it. If you don't understand it as well as they do, best stay away.

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