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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA311 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:02:31 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!psinntp!panix!tls From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Message-ID: <C1o2DG.Kn2@panix.com> Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC References: <1993Jan22.005910.9864@choate.edu> <1993Jan28.050526.22773@unislc.uucp> <1993Jan28.184551.22515@sci34hub.sci.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 12:22:28 GMT Lines: 29 In article <1993Jan28.184551.22515@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes: >In article <1993Jan28.050526.22773@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes: >>Thor Lancelot Simon (lancelot@spock.uucp) wrote: > > [ has had source access, but... ] >>: I'm a minor. So I'm not bound by any contractual obligation, to AT&T or anyone [...] >>The problem with that is that whoever gave you access to the source can be sued >>(and successfully, I might add) for giving you such access, because you are not >>an adult, and cannot enter into a legal binding contract - this is a clear >>violation of the AT&T licensing agreement. > >Based on this rational, AT&T/USL shouldn't have issued a source license >to a educational institution; virtually every student falls under the >classification of "minor". Unless the agreement specifically prohibited >access by students, that's tacit approval of a non-enforcable situation. >I'm sure the schools' lawyers would have a field day with that... I would imagine so, the school in question being a private high school... We're also certainly not the only high school to possess/have possessed a UNIX source license; Lincoln-Sudbury comes immediately to mind, and I know there are others. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM "Better be careful there. John might decide to start taking legal action against people who refuse to buy stuff from him." --Kevin McBride