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Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Source
Message-ID: <16539@kestrel.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 13:53:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 16 13:53:47 1987
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Reply-To: sci@kestrel.UUCP (Mike Liveright)
Organization: Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto, CA
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Keywords: SOURCE C 
	The discussion that I had with Prentice Hall was that it was o.k.

to copy MINIX source for "Educational" purposes. If you actually
want to delivor most of the system, then they would want to be payed, a
maximum of $79 for the additional copy.
	I think that it might be appropriate to use this group to try to
assist Prentice Hall in developing a policy and Licence on this type
of use of MINIX. My impression was that they were relatively new in the
field of Software Distribution, and that if the ARPA community can suggest
a "resonable" policy, they would be willing to consider it.
	It is my impression that the author and publisher want to have a policy
that satisfies the following conditions, not necessarly in the following order:

	1) To allow programmers access to a large set of source code that is
discribed in the book.

	2) To collect a minimal royalty on the use ($79) of signifficant 
portions of MINIX.

	3) To somehow provide a coordination center so that further development
and ports are documented so that people know about them.

	As a STRAW MAN, I will propose the following license, not in any way
discussed with the publisher or author:

	MINIX source should be freely distributed and is also available from 
Prentice Hall. Any distribution of MINIX must contain in an obvious place 
the license conditions for the re-distribution and use of MINIX.

	If code derived from MINIX is executed then Prentice Hall should be
payed in proportion to the percent of the source that was used, up to a
maximin of $79.

I have no idea if this would be agreable to the developers of MINIX, but as
time proceeds, and we see if the MINIX system is worth while, I am sure
that we can clarify the situation.