Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: recompiling Copyrighted sources
Message-ID: <1989Aug14.153629.4127@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <317@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 15:36:29 GMT

In article <317@galadriel.bt.co.uk> pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French) writes:
>Just a quickie this one ... if you are on a site and have _legitimate_
>access to UNIX source code is it legal for you to recompile it under
>Minix and use it ?

Your legitimate access to Unix source code will normally come subject to
an AT&T source license, which authorizes you to use that source on
certain specific machines AND NOWHERE ELSE.  If your Minix machine is in
the list of authorized machines, then it doesn't matter what operating
system you are running on it, it's okay.  If your Minix machine is not
in the list, you are violating your license if you move so much as one
byte of AT&T code to it.

Incidentally, despite the "Subject" line, copyright is irrelevant when
there is a signed license agreement involved.
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