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From: olsen@ll-xn.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Future of Minix
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Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 09:36:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 29 09:36:33 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 20:35:55 EST
References: <521@csun.UUCP> <10184@tektronix.TEK.COM> <1619@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: olsen@ll-xn.UUCP (Jim Olsen)
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In article <1619@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@tomcat.UUCP (Tim Kay) writes:

>Does anybody know if it would be OK for somebody to distribute a complete,
>modified MINIX, assuming that each person it was sent to showed a receipt for
>an original MINIX code purchase?

It is not OK.  A copyright holder has the exclusive right to make 'derivative
works.'  A modified MINIX would be a derivative of MINIX.

Tenenbaum may wish to waive some of his rights to control derivatives of
MINIX, but that's up to him.
-- 
Jim Olsen	...!{decvax,linus,adelie}!ll-xn!olsen