Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaero!pesnta!amd!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.legal Subject: Re: yacc: public domain? Message-ID: <11930@gatech.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 16:01:05 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.11930 Posted: Thu Feb 7 16:01:05 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 00:14:49 EST References: <6779@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2114@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1276@orca.UUCP> <288@desint.UUCP> <4866@utzoo.UUCP> <185@thunder.UUCP> <540@ncoast.UUCPThu, 7-Feb-85 16:01:05 EST Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 25 Summary: > Article <185@thunder.UUCP>, from gamiddleton@thunder.UUCP (Guy Middleton) > Are you saying that *anybody* who uses a system should be made to sign a > non-disclosure agreement? I doubt that any university (with several hundred > students on a typical Unix machine) could force all of them to sign any such > thing. Here at Georgia Tech, for at least the last 3 or 4 years, anyone getting an account on one of the research machines with source available is required to sign a non-disclosure agreement. The agreement is basically a reproduction of the part of the license governing non-disclosure, and a statement that they had read and understood it, and would abide by it. Everybody, including faculty, signs it. One the other hand, on the Pyramid where we run only binaries and no source is available, so the campus department administering it doesn't require any signatures. That may soon change, however, since we want to get source on that machine. If it means getting hundreds of students to sign a non-disclosure agreemen, we will. Our lawyers here are rather touchy about things like that. -- Gene "6 months and counting" Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf