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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Trouble with uucp/cu/dialing sharing a phone line
Keywords: Bloody Forehead.
Message-ID: <2315@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 88 23:12:36 GMT
References: <517@uceng.UC.EDU> <358@ispi.UUCP> <10@estinc.UUCP> <2565@ficc.uu.net> <368@ispi.UUCP>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
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In article <368@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
>Unless Sandy has been able to ignore a copyright, he can only distribute
>the binaries of the init.  I had the same question which he answered a
>while ago.

I had always assumed Sandy's "init" was written from scratch, and source
was available from him.  Anyway, I'm sure he'll clarify this.

Jonathan's comments were unclear as to who claims the copyright on Sandy's
init, and I may be stating the obvious, but just in case not, one cannot
distribute binaries compiled from licensed AT&T UNIX source code without an
appropriate "license to distribute binaries."  If the init is not AT&T
derived (which is what I had thought), Sandy would be bound only by the
agreement he had with the original author.


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Steve Dyer
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