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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!news.larc.nasa.gov!darwin.sura.net!mips!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!nntp.hut.fi!usenet From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Berkeley Strikes Back? Message-ID: <1992Aug6.005940.19032@nntp.hut.fi> Date: 6 Aug 92 00:59:40 GMT References: <158frnINN5cn@agate.berkeley.edu> <MIKE.92Jul30085914@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu> <1992Jul30.193017.28689@gateway.novell.com> <1992Aug3.010714.13359@athena.cs.uga.edu> Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks) Nntp-Posting-Host: laphroaig.cs.hut.fi In article <1992Aug3.010714.13359@athena.cs.uga.edu>, hal@pollux (Hal N. Brooks) writes: >I don't have the AT&T license at hand, but here's a tidbit from an >old "Sun Microsystems Educational Institution Source Code License": > >11.0 MODIFICATIONS > Nothing in this License shall preclude LICENSEE from modifying > the Licensed Software and developing derivative works, including > enhancements and extensions of the Licensed Software, for its > own use. All such modifications and derivative works shall be > the personal property of Sun and thus subject to all terms and > conditions of this License. > >That last sentence is a real gotcha! I think the Sun license also includes a clause which prohibits signers from telling anyone what the license says. Open systems - it'd be interesting to know what source licenses for closed systems are like. You sign them in blood, let the vendor have your soul after you die and promise your firstborn to write the next OS for the vendor? //Jyrki