Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!wivax!cadmus!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!gwyn@BRL-TGR.ARPA From: gwyn@BRL-TGR.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: UNIX trademark registration Message-ID: <6562@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 14:28:00 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6562 Posted: Sun Dec 9 14:28:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 03:04:42 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 10 If you have access to source code for ANY version of UNIX, you are supposed to be bound by your site's license agreement with AT&T. That is what keeps UNIX a trade secret. Certainly, UCB can add their own restrictions for their enhancements ON TOP of AT&T's. For a UNIX look-alike to be free of AT&T ownership, it would have to be developed entirely from publicly available information. Although this covers a lot of ground, that is still so much work that only a few vendors offer such systems, and they are hard put to track newer developments of the "official" UNIX product.