narayan@mytardis.UUCP (Narayan Mohanram) (08/15/88)
I am considering including a part of the tty driver from BSD in a product for non-un*x machines. It is the NTTYDISC part of the tty driver. Will it require an UN*X license to distribute it. I know that this code was developed in Austria somewhere, and did not originate in AT&T. Thanks for any advice in advance Narayan Mohanram pacbell!mytardis!narayan
ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) (08/19/88)
>I am considering including a part of the tty driver from BSD in >a product for non-un*x machines. It is the NTTYDISC part of the >tty driver. Will it require an UN*X license to distribute it. I >know that this code was developed in Austria somewhere, and did >not originate in AT&T. It will probably require an AT&T license. The 4BSD license that the Regents of the University of California require of all 4BSD recipients says, essentially, that the recipients will treat *everything* on the distribution as if it were AT&T code subject to the Unix license. If you can get the original quthor to give you the code without this restriction, or you can get a written disclaimer from the Regents (which they don't do), then the AT&T license will be necessary. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2560 Ninth St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,uunet}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146 "I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady. I'll fight them as an engineer."