[comp.unix.i386] Licenses and sublicenses

shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) (07/23/90)

In article <1990Jul19.142101.26048@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>
>I must admit that it has been quite some time since I've read a Unix
>license agreement.  But the ones I have read bore no resemblance to
>this description.
>
>The AT&T license is necessarily separate since it doesn't apply to the
>porters code.

	Sorry Charlie. *You* don't get the AT&T license; your vendor does.
	That license gives the vendor the right to resell based on the
	licensed code. It's sometimes called a Distribution Sub-license.

	INTERACTIVE's license, for example, includes the following statement:
	"The Software and its copyrights are owned by INTERACTIVE or its
	suppliers". And we know who at least one of those suppliers are. 8-)