Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!hao!gatech!udel!mmdf From: KLH@sri-nic.arpa (Ken Harrenstien) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: [Walter Tichy : Re: [callen@ada-uts: Re: SVC - Revision control for Minix]] Message-ID: <1148@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 18 Feb 88 21:53:45 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 33 FYI. --------------- Return-Path: <@RELAY.CS.NET,@ira.uka.de,@i41s1.ira.uka.de:tichy@ira.uka.de> Received: from RELAY.CS.NET by SRI-NIC.ARPA with TCP; Thu 18 Feb 88 05:49:58-PST Received: from germany.csnet by RELAY.CS.NET id ai08492; 18 Feb 88 8:09 EST Received: from i41s1 by iraun1.ira.uka.de. id aa06846; 18 Feb 88 9:22 MET Date: Thu, 18 Feb 88 9:21:58 MET From: Walter Tichy To: Ken Harrenstien cc: tichy%ira.uka.de@RELAY.CS.NET, wheels%mks.uucp%ira.uka.de@RELAY.CS.NET Subject: Re: [callen@ada-uts: Re: SVC - Revision control for Minix] An important correction to your message: MKS can very well insist that their port not be copied. MKS has a licensed version of RCS that is not in the public domain (an enhancement of the one on the Berkeley tape). They have furthermore added their own software, namely diff and diff3. The originals, as you may know, are AT&T's, and have so far hampered porting RCS. MKS has written its own to overcome this. MKS has a license to sell its port of RCS to the IBM PC. The licencse grants them full rights to their port, and all the copyright protection etc. available. You cannot copy the MKS RCS without permission from MKS. -Walter Tichy -------