Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!jeff From: jeff@gatech.UUCP (Jeff Lee) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.legal Subject: Re: yacc: public domain? Message-ID: <11580@gatech.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 16:11:25 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.11580 Posted: Wed Jan 9 16:11:25 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:16:38 EST References: <6779@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2114@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1276@orca.UUCP> <288@desint.UUCP> <4866@utzoo.UUCP> <185@thunder.UUCP> Organization: School of ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:11432 net.legal:1263 > Are you saying that *anybody* who uses a system should be made to sign a > non-disclosure agreement? I doubt that any university (with several hundred > students on a typical Unix machine) could force all of them to sign any such > thing. > ________ > Guy Middleton, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont. > ..{allegra,clyde,decvax,utcsrgv}!watmath!thunder!gamiddleton Here at Georgia Tech, anyone who is given an account on the Unix(tm....giggle) system/systems has been required to sign a non-disclosure license because the source has been on the systems. The license specified that everyone who was to have access to this stuff has got to sign their firstborn male child away or look at one heck of a lawsuit (I assume). I have not heard that the same is required of binary-only licensees(sp?) which makes me wonder if reverse-engineering would be legal in that case. I do not know of any binary-only folks who require non-disclosure licenses. Jeff Lee CSNet: Jeff @ GATech ARPA: Jeff.GATech @ CSNet-Relay uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,rlgvax,sb1,unmvax,ulysses,ut-sally}!gatech!jeff -- Jeff Lee CSNet: Jeff @ GATech ARPA: Jeff.GATech @ CSNet-Relay uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,rlgvax,sb1,unmvax,ulysses,ut-sally}!gatech!jeff