Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!hal!ncoast!allbery 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) Followup-To: comp.os.minix Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 20 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 -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc ncoast Public Access UN*X, +1 216 781 6201 -- we have alt.all (email for info) * Copyright 1987 Brandon S. Allbery; you may redistribute only if you permit * /aXcess Company^^^^^^^^^\ * further redistribution. * |6615 Center St. #A1-105| {ames,harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc ]!ncoast!allbery |Mentor, OH 44060 | {well,ihnp4,pyramid}!hoptoad,cbosgd] \+1 216 974 9210________/ necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu