nondisclosure clause in SCO license

Warren Toomey wkt at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au
Tue Dec 15 08:23:22 AEST 1998


In article by Eric Fischer:
> 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

I hope not Eric. I'll ask SCO for their impressions, and will pass them
back on to the mailing list.

	Warren

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