[news.groups] What's a name

lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) (10/04/90)

gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston) writes (on the subject of the name,
comp.unix.kernel):

>Oh, won't any posting to this violate UNIX source license agreements? The
>lawyers will send the posters a nasty note.... Kernel information is all
>a trade secret. Right.

Legally speaking, I am told (by a lawyer) that the group could be
named comp.unix.trade-secrets.dont.tell.anybody, and one could not
be successfully sued, so long as the CONTENT was not in violation
of the source license.
 -- 
Eliot Lear
[lear@turbo.bio.net]