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Subject: Re: another dumb posting about licensing...
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Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 01:28:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 26 01:28:55 1987
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In article <483@gouldsd.UUCP> mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
>
>	Ok, a lot of people who were flaming me about uucp pointed out
>that all the UNIX source is licensed as a trade secret. This is
>obviously a crock of shit, since Lyons published the version 6 
>kernel as a textbook. So much for a trade secret. So much for 'cat'
>which is stubbed out in Kernighan & Ritchie, so much for 'dc' and
>a host of others. Anything that is printed in a TEXTBOOK is going to
>be plenty public, children. (for those of us who can read)

I dunno - I seem to recall that you couldn't even *get* the Lyons book
unless you had a source license for Sixth Edition or later.

--Pat.