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From: hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Berkeley Strikes Back?
Message-ID: <1992Aug3.010714.13359@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 92 01:07:14 GMT
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In article <1992Jul30.193017.28689@gateway.novell.com> terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
>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.
>
I don't have the AT&T license at hand, but here's a tidbit from an
old "Sun Microsystems Educational Institution Source Code License":
11.0 MODIFICATIONS
Nothing in this License shall preclude LICENSEE from modifying
the Licensed Software and developing derivative works, including
enhancements and extensions of the Licensed Software, for its
own use. All such modifications and derivative works shall be
the personal property of Sun and thus subject to all terms and
conditions of this License.
That last sentence is a real gotcha!
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