Originally Posted by
Tummy
I didn't read the EULA, but I don't think Leopard is required to be preinstalled, just that you have to have a license. Slight difference, but could save someone a lot of time first installing Leopard then upgrading.
the eula says 'already installed.' it doesn't make a whole lot of sense since i can't see how anyone could tell if an install of snow leopard previously had an install of leopard, but i didn't write it.
http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macosx106.pdf
...you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer as long as that computer has a properly licensed copy of Mac OS X Leopard already installed on it.