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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!hela.iti.org!hela.iti.org!scs From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) Subject: Re: Berkeley Strikes Back? Message-ID: <scs.712849571@hela.iti.org> Sender: usenet@iti.org (Hela USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: hela.iti.org Organization: Industrial Technology Institute References: <158frnINN5cn@agate.berkeley.edu> <MIKE.92Jul30085914@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu> <1992Jul30.193017.28689@gateway.novell.com> <1992Aug3.010714.13359@athena.cs.uga.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 13:46:11 GMT Lines: 24 hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks) writes: >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! The current AT&T licences contain a similar statement. It was not always there. If memory serves, it was the appearance of this statement in the licence that caused the Regents to stop getting AT&T source. They did not sign a licence with that statement. -- "If life were fair, the acquisition of a large bosom or a massive inheritance would have no bearing on your ability to attract the opposite sex, and Dan Quayle would be making a living asking runny-nosed children, `Do you want fries with that?'" -- John Cleese