Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!root From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: recompiling Copyrighted sources Summary: The sources are licensed to specific machines. Message-ID: <2303@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Date: 12 Aug 89 02:52:01 GMT References: <317@galadriel.bt.co.uk> Organization: Computer Center, UCSF Lines: 27 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 ? Only on the licensed machine. That is, if you run Minix on your machine which is licensed by AT&T for sources then you may compile and run the resulting binaries on that machine (I am assuming you are not licensed as a Unix reseller). Even if you have a cross compiler you would need to license your Minix machine to run Unix in order to use components of it legally. We have academic licenses here but we have to add any new machines to the license before moving source, booting etc. Thos Sumner Internet: thos@cca.ucsf.edu (The I.G.) UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos BITNET: thos@ucsfcca U.S. Mail: Thos Sumner, Computer Center, Rm U-76, UCSF San Francisco, CA 94143-0704 USA OS|2 -- an Operating System for puppets. #include