Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:10568 misc.legal:5726 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,misc.legal Subject: Re: UN*X license for BSD sources ??? Message-ID: <645@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: 19 Aug 88 00:22:36 GMT References: <162@mytardis.UUCP> Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley Lines: 22 >I am considering including a part of the tty driver from BSD in >a product for non-un*x machines. It is the NTTYDISC part of the >tty driver. Will it require an UN*X license to distribute it. I >know that this code was developed in Austria somewhere, and did >not originate in AT&T. It will probably require an AT&T license. The 4BSD license that the Regents of the University of California require of all 4BSD recipients says, essentially, that the recipients will treat *everything* on the distribution as if it were AT&T code subject to the Unix license. If you can get the original quthor to give you the code without this restriction, or you can get a written disclaimer from the Regents (which they don't do), then the AT&T license will be necessary. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2560 Ninth St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,uunet}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146 "I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady. I'll fight them as an engineer."