Newsgroups: alt.sources
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: mailx
Message-ID: <1989Aug10.163341.18062@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6703@dayton.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 16:33:41 GMT

In article <6703@dayton.UUCP> joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson) writes:
>...I figure I'm covered, legally, but if it
>isn't supposed to be PD (ie: someone stripped the rest of the copyright
>notices before I got it), I don't want to step on toes.

It's not safe to assume that the absence of copyright notices means it's
okay to redistribute.  It may be covered by trade secret agreements, like
the AT&T Unix sources.  (In which case you should not have been given
access to it, but that's a separate issue.)  Some of the Berkeley stuff
is AT&T-derived and hence covered by Unix licensing; some is not.  It
can be a bit hard to tell.
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