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From: mgallagh@uhasun.hartford.edu (Michael Gallagher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: BBS systems under Minix
Summary: Legalities...?!
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Date: 8 Feb 91 03:58:55 GMT
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In article <ymXVw2w164w@halcyon.uucp>, halcyon!grendel@sumax.seattleu.edu
 (Grendel) had queried:
:
> Has anyone ported a decent BBS program to Minix lately or at all? Has 
> anyone ported RFmail?
> 

Well, one of the reasons I'm looking to the purchase of Minix is putting it
on a '386 system & running a Unix-BBS from it. However, a friend of mine
mentioned that he recalls part of the 'licensing agreement' is not  to
use it for 'public access', i.e. you aren't supposed to use it for such, or 
offering shell access [although that -doesn't- mean giving copies of any
of the sources/binaries], etc. Only 'in-house' use, etc.

Can anyone tell me if any of that is true?? If MINIX is my OS, does this
mean I can't run a BBS under it, or allow people shell-access? It's not 
like I'd even want to allow anyone to copy the source-files or binaries.....

So far everything I've seen of MINIX has lead me towards it as an OS of choice 
for an ibm [sco xenix ain't bad either, but mucho $$$$].  I hope silly 
technicalities  won't be a bother so hence I ask here.

 -mg