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From: millerje@holst.tmc.edu (jeffrey scott miller)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: MINIX on c.b.i.p
Keywords: Minix
Message-ID: <10129@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Date: 10 Oct 90 18:52:01 GMT
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In article <1990Oct9.181210.14211@ioe.lon.ac.uk> teexnma@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Nino Margetic) writes:
>In article <5417@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> reich@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dick Reichenbach) writes:

[text about MINIX]

>>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].
>

MINIX is copyrighted.  The version that was to be placed on CBIP was a
demo version.  What the difference between the demo version and the "real"
version is, I don't know.

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