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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix use of setuid
Message-ID: <2813@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 23:22:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2813
Posted: Mon Jul  6 23:22:30 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 02:49:15 EDT
References: <2366@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <2366@hoptoad.uucp> by gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore):
+---------------
| Did ast or Prentice-Hall license the use of setuid from AT&T?  It is patented,
| as most of you probably know.  Or is Minix in technical violation of the
| patent?
+---------------

The patent on setuid was dedicated to the public in 1978 (?), according to
a posting of a few months back.  As a result, anyone can use it.  (I think
this is similar to what AT&T did with getopt.)

++Brandon
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