nondisclosure clause in SCO license

Eric Fischer eric at fudge.uchicago.edu
Tue Dec 15 08:17:04 AEST 1998


Does anyone know how serious SCO is about enforcing the nondisclosure
clause from the Ancient Unix license?  I'm referring to this one:

   8.4 (a) LICENSEE agrees that it shall hold all parts of the
   SOURCE CODE PRODUCTS subject to this Agreement in confidence for
   SCO.  LICENSEE further agrees that should it make such disclosure
   of any or all of such SOURCE CODE PRODUCTS (including methods or
   concepts utilized therein) to anyone to whom such disclosure is
   necessary to the use for which rights are granted hereunder,
   LICENSEE shall appropriately notify each such person to whom any
   such disclosure is made that such disclosure is made in
   confidence and shall be kept in confidence and have each such
   person sign a confidentiality agreement containing restrictions
   on disclosure substantially similar to those set forth herein.

So if I mention to someone that (for instance) the Sixth Edition
version of ed didn't have the "j" command but it was in PWB and the
Seventh Edition, and I know this from reading the source code, are the
SCO police going to come after me?

eric

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