Re: just SCO but look at FSF....

From: Joe Dunning (joe_at_blahblah.invalid)
Date: 10/26/03 

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 03:25:06 GMT

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:34:08 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
<jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:

>
>Speaking of non-monetary transfers, there are also some unenforceable
>clauses found in many software licenses. All the AT&T/USL Unix source
>licenses included a clause demanding that any derivative work
>(enhancements and bug fixes) performed by the licensee must be
>supplied back to AT&T/USL for inclusion into the source code base.

I must have missed that. Care to tell me which section of the ATT/IBM
license agreement requires this?

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