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From: teexnma@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: MINIX on c.b.i.p
Keywords: Minix
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.181210.14211@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Oct 90 18:12:10 GMT
References: <5417@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: teexnma@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic)
Organization: Dept. of Medical Physics - University College London
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In article <5417@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> reich@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dick Reichenbach) writes:
>About a month ago someone requested that MINIX be posted on c.b.i.p
>This was supported by many people in c.b.i.p.d, but nothing ever happened.
>Is something still being done, or has the project been dropped?
>
>Another question is, I thought MINIX was commercial software that is, of
>course, protected by copyright.
>Well, is it or is it not commercial software?

Yes, it would be nice to know something about that. Can anyone shed
some light into the matter? BTW, as far as I know, MINIX is Copyright
to Prentice-Hall Inc, and as it says in the comment of the source code
(in the Tanenbaum's book Operating systems): 'Permission is granted to
make a limited number of copies of this software for educational or
research purposes only' [end quote].

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