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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MINIX (and code postings)
Message-ID: <957@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 03:56:13 EST
Article-I.D.: vortex.957
Posted: Tue Jan 13 03:56:13 1987
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I just thought I'd point out something that should be pretty obvious--
but given all the new people on the nets maybe it should be said
explicitly occasionally:

DON'T POST AT&T UNIX BINARIES OR SOURCE (OR BINARIES OR SOURCE BASED ON 
AT&T UNIX SOURCES) TO THE NETWORK!  FOR THAT MATTER, NEVER POST
ANY NON-PUBLIC-DOMAIN SOFTWARE UNLESS YOU HAVE EXPLICIT 
PERMISSION TO DO SO FROM THE ENTITY THAT LICENSES SUCH SOFTWARE!

I mention this in response to Andy's comment to a uucp query where he said
(more or less): "if you have one that runs under V7 let me know or post it."
I assume that he meant to add, "IF and only IF it is PUBLIC-DOMAIN AND NOT
BASED ON AT&T CODE."  This should apply to any and all utilities/programs
(communications programs, compilers, or whatever) that anyone might 
consider for use with MINIX or anything else for that matter--they should not
be non-public-domain code nor should they be based on non-public-domain code.

I know that Andy has been scrupulous in making sure that nothing relating
in any way to AT&T Unix source or binaries has been included in MINIX,
and I assume he wants others to share his respect for non-public-domain code
as well.

As I said above, I believe that most people on the network would consider
the above to be self-evident, but it never hurts to be explicit
once in a while when dealing with a growing network community!

--Lauren--