Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix use of setuid Message-ID: <8264@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 19:48:44 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.8264 Posted: Mon Jul 6 19:48:44 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jul-87 19:48:44 EDT References: <2366@hoptoad.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 10 >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? Neither, I would think: AT&T formally renounced licensing and royalties on that patent some years ago. (More specific reference available with some digging, if desired.) -- Mars must wait -- we have un- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology finished business on the Moon. {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry