Re: SCO Source license tainting?

In article by Jesper Nilsson: As long as you don't reuse tainted Unix source code in your job, you will be ok. There are so many books covering the Unix kernel: Lions, Bach, Goodheart, Vahalia etc., that any concerns other than source code reuse are negligible. That's my feelings, anyway. Warren Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA25583 for pups-liszt; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:46:21 +1100 (EST) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA25578 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>au>; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:46:12 +1100 (EST) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA20195; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:16:09 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA51811; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:16:08 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990224111607.G93492(a)lemis.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:16:07 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au, Unix Heritage Society <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: SCO Source license tainting? References: <Pine.LNX.4.05-df.9902231646390.8684-100000(a)bartlet.df.lth.se> <199902232152.IAA04722(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199902232152.IAA04722(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>au>; from Warren Toomey on Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 08:52:15AM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Wednesday, 24 February 1999 at 8:52:15 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote: I think this relates to a spectre raised during the USL/BSDI wars. Somebody suggested that anybody who had been exposed to AT&T source code was ``tainted'' and could thus not legally develop competitive systems. Somewhere I have a button that somebody brought back to me from a USENIX, with the text ``mentally contaminated''. Jesper, I don't think you need to worry about the problem. That kind of restriction would be unenforceable. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog(a)lemis.com for PGP public key