rjones@cs.tamu.edu (Robert E Jones) (10/01/90)
I own a copy of the Tanenbaum book that contains the source code for
Minix that is copyright 1987 by Prentice-Hall, and the Copyright statement
says that private individuals may redistribute the source and binaries of
Minix freely to other individuals for educational and research purposes.
Does this allow the redistribution of the source on disk? The statement
does not prohibit it, in fact, it seems to encourage just this kind of
transfer. If this is the case, I would appreciate someone sending me an
unmodified copy of the source code that I could use in conjuction with the
book for studying operating systems. If I am incorrect, would someone please
tell me what specific statement prohibits this redistribution or what version
of Minix revoked the rights that this one gives. Thanks for your time.
Robert Jones
p.s. I am sorry if I am beating a dead horse on this, but I haven't seen
it mentioned thus far.