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From: wegrzyn@cdx39.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix Copyright Info and A Quick Book Review
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Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 09:18:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 29 09:18:59 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 06:16:55 EST
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  I just received a copy of Andy Tanenbaum's book : Operating Systems - Design
and Implementation. He did a very nice job - he included everything I teach in
my OS class (we build our own OS in the class very similar to Minix).

  After reading the book I turned to the listings in the back and read the
copyright notice. The notice was interesting because it didn't jive with the
statement Andy made about "small numbers of copies" can be distributed. The
copyright goes (taken from the book)


   Copyright (C) 1987 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. Permission is hereby granted to
   private individuals and educational institutions to modify and
   redistribute the binary and source programs of this system to other
   private individuals and educational institutions for educational and
   research purposed. For corporate or commercial use, permission from
   Prentice-Hall is required. In general, such permission will be granted,
   subject to a few conditions.

At last, a copyright notice that doesn't require religion (read that as GNU).
This copyright means that it is possible to distribute this to just about
anyone. That is nice.