Liability WRT Access to UNIX Source Code

Guy Harris guy at sun.uucp
Sat Nov 9 17:22:21 AEST 1985


> > 	The source code should be protected, and access given only to those
> > students with a need-to-know.  Setting a group permission to control
> > source access should be no problem.
> 
>   Thats the attitude. We can't have students learning too much at our
> academic institutions, can we?!

Not if those students aren't licensed to learn the things in question, like
how the UNIX kernel works.  No, that knowledge is not in the public domain;
it's owned by AT&T (discussions of whether knowledge can or should be
"owned" to net.politics or somesuch, please).

	Guy Harris



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