Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ispi!jbayer
From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Trouble with uucp/cu/dialing sharing a phone line
Summary: Let me make myself clearer
Keywords: Bloody Forehead.
Message-ID: <380@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 15:43:11 GMT
References: <517@uceng.UC.EDU> <358@ispi.UUCP> <10@estinc.UUCP> <2565@ficc.uu.net> <2315@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
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Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <2315@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>, dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
= 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. 


Sorry.  I should have said it.  Sandy said that it was AT&T source code.



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