Silly Copyrights (was Re: Legal uses of lex & yacc)

[Brad Morrison]

In article <l177spv at unify.uucp> dgh at unify.UUCP (David Harrington) writes:
>In article <659 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>>In article <34421 at ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jwl at ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (James Wilbur Lewis) writes:

>>Experience tells, that companies do in fact silly things with
>>copyrighting:

>>3) I quote from my license for my ISC 386/ix:
>>	"... [you may] either (a) make one (1) copy of the Software
>>	 solely for backup purposes or (b) transfer the Software to
>>	 a single hard disk provided you keep the original solely
>>	 for backup or archival copies"
>>    (no kidding: It seems, that I am not allowed, to make regular
>>    backup-copies of the hard disk to several tapes. This *is* silly.)

>Hey, they're doing you a favor.

With favours like that, who needs bugs?

>Why do you want to back up the OS regularly?

1) In case of disk failure
2) When installing a new disk or disks
   a) Replacing everything
   b) Moving part of the system to another mounted filesystem

>Are you making changes to the kernel, and if so, how?

Possibly; it's not uncommon to link a new kernel.

>Binary or hex?

Irrelevant.

>Not backing it up saves tape, and time.

Well, that's the big trade-off.  You can save time now by not doing
backups, or you can save time later by having backups.
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