Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!alberta!edm!rroot
From: rroot@edm.UUCP (uucp)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Posting shareware to the Usenet
Summary: Educational source licenses REQUIRE it.
Message-ID: <215@edm.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 14:42:54 GMT
References: <417@ddsw1.UUCP> <262@papaya.bbn.com> <4309@bellcore.bellcore.com> <1048@cpocd2.UUCP>
Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB.
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One of the reason why there's a lot of really good UNIX software out there
is that it is (effectively) a REQUIREMENT of those people who have an 
educational source license. The license that we have seems to say that any
states that any software developed on a machine with an educational license 
MUST BE MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE.  Once you realize that you have something that
you'd like to sell, you can then move your development to a non-educational
machine, but anything up to that point must be made available.
  In addition, Universities also have policies that require/encourage
students to release any useful work they do whether or not it required by
such a license.
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 Stephen Samuel 
  {ihnp4,ubc-vision,seismo!mnetor,vax135}!alberta!edm!steve