From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkt@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (Warren Toomey) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:52:15 +1100 (EST) Subject: SCO Source license tainting? In-Reply-To: from Jesper Nilsson at "Feb 23, 1999 5: 0:54 pm" Message-ID: <199902232152.IAA04722@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> In article by Jesper Nilsson: > I'm thinking about getting myself a SCO Source license, > but I'm worried that I might get "tainted" by this > since my day job involves writing operating systems... > My employer would not appreciate getting sued because of > my hobbies...:-) 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 at 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 ; 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 at 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 at lemis.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:16:07 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: wkt at cs.adfa.edu.au, Unix Heritage Society Subject: Re: SCO Source license tainting? References: <199902232152.IAA04722 at 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 at henry.cs.adfa.edu.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 at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Wednesday, 24 February 1999 at 8:52:15 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote: > In article by Jesper Nilsson: >> I'm thinking about getting myself a SCO Source license, >> but I'm worried that I might get "tainted" by this >> since my day job involves writing operating systems... >> My employer would not appreciate getting sued because of >> my hobbies...:-) > > 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. 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 at lemis.com for PGP public key