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From: terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Berkeley Strikes Back?
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Date: 30 Jul 92 19:30:17 GMT
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In article <MIKE.92Jul30085914@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu> mike@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu (Michael John Haertel) writes:
>In article <158frnINN5cn@agate.berkeley.edu> gwh@soda.berkeley.edu (George William Herbert) writes:
>> stone.  Berkeley could conceivably pull the right for USL to
>> resell anything with "Copyright the Regents..." in it,
>> or derived therefrom.
>
>Actually, Berkeley probably can't do this.  I have no idea how
>Berkeley's license agreement with AT&T reads, but at my old school
>one of the conditions on the educational Unix license was that
>AT&T would have access to any modifications made to the software.
>(Or something like that; it's been about 5 years since I read
>that license.)

	What is "access"?  The ability to go "hmmmmm...." or the ability to
incorporate any changes into future AT&T products?  Please, please, if you
can, post the terms of the license.  A superior posting, unless Mike's old
school was UCB, would be for someone at UCB to post the license terms they
were granted by AT&T.

					-- Terry