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From: jih@usl.UUCP (Juha I. Heinanen)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Permission
Message-ID: <575@usl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 18:49:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 18:49:50 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:23:51 EDT
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Reply-To: jih@usl.UUCP (Juha I. Heinanen)
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Summary: 

This is followup to my own message where I questioned the use of an
educational Unix license for commercial purposes.  Below are some
relevant quotes from the terms for System V:

1.01 (a) Uses for "academic and educational purposes" means uses
directly related to teaching ... and uses in noncommercial research
by students and faculty, ..., provided that (i) neither the results
of such research nor any enhancement or modification so developed is
intended primarily for the benefit of a third party, (ii) such
results, enhancements and modifications (...) are made available to
anyone (...) without restriction on use, copying, or further
distribution, notwithstanding any proprietary right (such as a
copyright or patent right) that could be asserted by LICENSEE, its
students or faculty members and (iii) any copy of such result,
enhancement or modification furnished by LICENSEE is furnished for no
more than the cost of reproduction and shipping.

(b) Commercial use by LICENSEE of the LICENSED SOFTWARE or of any
such result, enhancement or modification is not permitted under this
agreement.  Such commercial use is permissible only pursuant to the
terms of an appropriate commercial software agreement between AT&T
and LICENSEE.  Any such result, enhancement or modification may be
developed further by LICENSEE for commercial use (...) only on CPUs
covered by such commercial software agreement and only provided that
the result, enhancement or modification, in the form in which it
exists when such commercial software agreement is executed by
LICENSEE, remains available to anyone as specified in Section 1.01
(a).

So, the question remains, did the machine James (I am using him here
just as an example) developed his Emacs have a commercial Unix
license.  If it didn't, James' copyright notice doesn't prevent
anybody (including Richard) (re)distributing James' code in the
form it was when it left the educational machine.  The same, of
course, applies to any copyrighted code floating around in various
universities.  This is provided that the earlier licenses said
roughly the same thing.
-- 
                              Juha Heinanen

USL, P.O. Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-433, tel. (318)231-5345
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