Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!umbc3!alex
From: alex@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3b1 dissassembler patches
Keywords: 3b1 7300
Message-ID: <1640@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Date: 4 Feb 89 20:47:39 GMT
References: <1636@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <434@polyof.UUCP>
Reply-To: alex@umbc3.umbc.edu.UMBC.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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In article <434@polyof.UUCP> john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck ) writes:

>Distributing (or using) such a utility in the manner illustrated above
>sounds like a blatant violation of your UNIX PC license:

	Nah. I included kernel symbols so that you could debug the loadable
device drivers that you wrote. I would never suggest that you use such a
utility to dissassemble propriatary AT&T code, that would be illegal. There
is a readme file that refers users to the licence agreement you mentioned, it
is called README.FIRST and is included in the sources.

	I would implore all users of this utility to "just say no" when someone
suggest that they dissassemble the kernal or any of the AT&T utilities.

>I have noticed a few postings if so-called "reverse assembled" sources
>float by.  These postings violate the Unix PC license.

	The only such posting that I am aware of was Fords keyboard driver,
which was reverse engineered from a Public Domain driver called capcntrl
(available free from AT&T's, "The Store").

>I am not saying the disassembler violates the license, but the poster
>above gave examples of things that DO violate the license.

	Now now, I would never do that. just because I posted the thing and
offered ways to utilize it, doesen't imply that I encourage breaking the law.
Dissassembling the kernel is quite legal as long as you have the proper
source licence(s), I trust that the unix-pc community is upright enough to
obay all of the local laws and statutes.

	Besides, I told you that it was of dubious value.
-- 
					:alex
Alex Crain
Systems Programmer			alex@umbc3.umbc.edu
Univ Md Baltimore County		nerwin!alex@umbc3.umbc.edu (NEW DOMAIN)