Liability WRT Access to UNIX Source Code

GillespieD deg at druhi.UUCP
Wed Oct 23 01:56:12 AEST 1985


> It is up to the university to honor the terms of its
> license agreement, which means taking reasonable
> precaution to protect AT&T's proprietary interest
> in the UNIX source code.  This probably means that
> they should require an agreement on the part of a
> student before he is given access to the source code.
> I don't see how a student could be held liable for
> the terms of an agreement that he has never heard of.
> 
When i was at the University of Colorado, I was required to sign
an agreement which said that I could look at the source code all
i wanted, but could not use it outside the university.



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