What's a name (was: Re: What's next for comp.unix?)

Eliot lear at turbo.bio.net
Thu Oct 4 17:04:23 AEST 1990


gary at 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 at turbo.bio.net]



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