Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!princeton!allegra!mit-eddie!tower From: tower@mit-eddie.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix Copyright Info and A Quick Book Review Message-ID: <4790@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 00:07:53 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4790 Posted: Mon Feb 9 00:07:53 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Feb-87 02:30:46 EST References: <625@cdx39.UUCP> Reply-To: tower@prep.ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) Distribution: world Organization: Project GNU, Free Software Foundation, 1000 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA +1 (617) 876-3296 Lines: 38 Keywords: software rights freedom Summary: GNU rights > MINIX rights In article <625@cdx39.UUCP> wegrzyn@cdx39.UUCP (Chuck Wegrzyn) writes: | | ... | |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. Note that the above copyright notice lets you use Minix in ways which are a strictly proper subset of the ways in which the GNU copylefts let you use GNU. That is, anything one is allowed to do with Minix software, one is also allowed to do with GNU software. Of course, one is allowed to do considerably more with GNU software ... Also, nobody has the slightest obligation to agree with RMS's ethical principles in order to use or distribute GNU software, even though the hope that people will take them up is part of what motivates the project. Further information on GNU is available from internet address: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu -- Len Tower, Project GNU of the Free Software Foundation 1000 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA +1 (617) 876-3296 HOME: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 UUCP: {}!mit-eddie!mit-prep!tower INTERNET: tower@prep.ai.mit.edu