Path: utzoo!yunexus!oz
From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix SH Status. [Is Charles Forsyth around ??]
Message-ID: <521@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 88 14:16:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: yunexus.521
Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York U. Computing Services - Magic Group
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| Message-ID: <804@ast.cs.vu.nl>
| Date: 14 Jun 88 09:19:32 GMT
| References: <499@yunexus.UUCP>
| Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)

| In article <499@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes:
| >Is the shell included with Minix distribution PD ??
|      
| None of MINIX  is PD.  The whole is copyright by P-H, and some of the parts
| are copyright by others (like an anthology of science fiction stories).

This, I knew already. It is amusing however, that all the PD software
people sent you when you requested it couple of years ago is all of
a sudden distribution-restricted. Did they know this at the time ??
Wouldn't it have been better to seperate the USER CONTRIBUTIONS from
the rest, and keep those contributions out of blanket-P-H-copyright ??

| The shell, in particular, was written by Charles Forsyth of the University
| of York (UK) and you need his permission to distribute it further.  In any
| event, it is not PD.
|      
| Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
|

Actually, the shell appearently originated at UofWaterloo first, and tarted
up/re-worked by Forsyth. [So I am told.]

I will assume the shell is PD unless I am told otherwise by Forsyth. [If
anybody has Forsyth's e-mail address, please forward it to me, so I can
contact him.]

oz
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