Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 23:07:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> Cc: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: UID < 65535? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.960827230427.7470A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960828040628.00685104@interpath.com>
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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Kevin P. Neal wrote: > At 10:57 PM 8/27/96 -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote: > >>Me: When has a BSD-style copyright not been enough to keep code on the net? > >> > >>Reece: The original CMU AFS code had a BSD-style copyright on it. Where > >> can it be found now? > >> > >>Me: Oh. Is that our pizza? > > > >The reason that you can't find AFS anymore is because when the AFS > >people left CMU to form Transarc, one of the conditions of them buying > >the rights to AFS was to remove AFS from CMU's FTP sites and the sites > >of other places on the net (I don't quite know how they got the other > >sites to get rid of the code, though). > > Exactly the situation he wants to avoid. How? Licences can't protect the software from the developer of the software :) The only way to stop your friend from taking his "new AFS" corporate after making it, is to kill him after he is done :) Tom
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