Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame,net.unix,net.unix-wizards,net.legal Subject: Re: Where's the (c) on unix? Message-ID: <265@opus.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Mar-84 00:42:53 EST Article-I.D.: opus.265 Posted: Fri Mar 30 00:42:53 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Mar-84 13:39:54 EST References: <933@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <935@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 29 <> The copyright notice for UNIX (a trademark of Bell Laboratories), and appurtenant legal ramifications of it, are contained in the license agreement. If your site is licensed to have source code, and if you are permitted access to that source code, you should have been made aware of the legal implications of that access. If you haven't, it's the fault of the administrator or other responsible party at your site. If you're trying to get your site administrator in deep trouble by claiming that you don't know about the restrictions on UNIX source code, I suspect you're off to a good start, since notifying you is his responsibility. Why is this posted to net.flame as well??? <> Why do a few people insist on trying to dodge the various protections of copyright, trademark, patent, etc.? Is it so galling to respect someone's (or some organization's) right to his(their) discoveries/inventions/creations? Are you so jealous of the creative/active people? I think that it would be nice if we could at least realize that the base of the software that 95+% of us are running in order to exchange these views wouldn't be out in the big world if somebody couldn't make enough money on it to make the distribution worthwhile. Unless you've ever had to write a PROCEDURE DIVISION or type a long string of DD statements as part of making your living, you probably can't appreciate just how big a step UNIX really is. <> More basically, it would have been reasonable to ask, "Why don't I see the copyright notice on UNIX source code modules?" instead of claiming that, since the notice isn't there, no copyright protection should exist. -- {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd