gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (07/05/87)
Did ast or Prentice-Hall license the use of setuid from AT&T? It is patented,
as most of you probably know. Or is Minix in technical violation of the
patent?
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>Did ast or Prentice-Hall license the use of setuid from AT&T? It is patented, >as most of you probably know. Or is Minix in technical violation of the >patent? Neither, I would think: AT&T formally renounced licensing and royalties on that patent some years ago. (More specific reference available with some digging, if desired.) -- Mars must wait -- we have un- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology finished business on the Moon. {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
allbery@ncoast.UUCP (07/07/87)
As quoted from <2366@hoptoad.uucp> by gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore): +--------------- | Did ast or Prentice-Hall license the use of setuid from AT&T? It is patented, | as most of you probably know. Or is Minix in technical violation of the | patent? +--------------- The patent on setuid was dedicated to the public in 1978 (?), according to a posting of a few months back. As a result, anyone can use it. (I think this is similar to what AT&T did with getopt.) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc ncoast Public Access UN*X, +1 216 781 6201 -- we have alt.all (email for info) * Copyright 1987 Brandon S. Allbery; you may redistribute only if you permit * /aXcess Company^^^^^^^^^\ * further redistribution. * |6615 Center St. #A1-105| {ames,harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc ]!ncoast!allbery |Mentor, OH 44060 | {well,ihnp4,pyramid}!hoptoad,cbosgd] \+1 216 974 9210________/ necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu
kent@tifsie.UUCP (Russell Kent) (07/10/87)
in article <2366@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) says: > > Did ast or Prentice-Hall license the use of setuid from AT&T? It is patented, > as most of you probably know. Or is Minix in technical violation of the > patent? > -- > {dasys1,ncoast,well,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@ingres.berkeley.edu > Alt.all: the alternative radio of the Usenet. Contributions welcome - post 'em I don't know if AST & P-H licensed the setuid patent from AT&T (or D. Ritchie), but it is my understanding that AT&T has a pro bono publico policy on the use of that patent, and the gist of it is that you may use the setuid concept free of charge, provided you do not claim it as your own, and you do not prevent others from using it. (Even big, impersonal corporations have been known to do the RIGHT THING :-) -- Russell Kent Phone: +1 214 995 3501 Texas Instruments - MS 3635 Net mail: P.O. Box 655012 ...!{ihnp4,uiucdcs}!convex!smu!tifsie!kent Dallas, TX 75265 ...!ut-sally!im4u!ti-csl!tifsie!kent