Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest Message-ID: <2020@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 4 Oct 90 02:18:02 GMT References: <1990Sep28.205053.16456@cbnews.att.com> <4140@lib.tmc.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 16 In article mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: | Just out of curiosity, when did AT&T start allowing people to freely | redistribute their code if it's part of a derived work? V6, I believe. You can compile stuff with their compiler, link it with their linker, and link in their library, and sell the resulting executable without giving away source. Don't use bison or the (still in beta) FSF library if you want to keep your code to yourself. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me