Re: SCO Source license tainting? - TUHS

24 Feb 1999

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

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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
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