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From: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace )
Newsgroups: pe.cust.wanted
Subject: Re: BSD software
Message-ID: <2692@pesnta.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 85 17:44:20 GMT
Date-Received: 11 Mar 85 18:54:15 GMT
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Reply-To: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace (UNIX Admin))
Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Santa Clara, Calif.
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Keywords: license BSD
Summary: A 5.2 license is all you need for source.

If you have a 5.2 source license from AT&T (not from Sears!), you can pass
licensed source around like it was water.  P-E to P-E, P-E to Customer, P-E to
DEC, DEC to Data General, Customer to Customer, etc.  Thats how AT&T feels 
about it.  There was some discussion on the net about BSD source and the
general feeling is that you need a 5.2 AT&T license. period.  The code in
BSD was written from tax payer's pockets and thus falls into the public domain
and the rest of the code is from AT&T.  BUT!  You can not generate a BSD binary
and give/sell it to a customer without some sort of royalty arangement with 
AT&T.  So, the bottom line is source can be exchanged between sites with the
proper source licenses from AT&T but binaries fall under royalties.

If I have a 4.2uucp running on an Edition VII system, I can not give a binary 
of it to any one since it is not covered in the royalty arangement with AT&T,
but I can give the source to the 4.2uucp to a 5.2 source site.
-- 
Earl Wallace
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