1 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 10:56:41 -0400 (EDT)
2 From: Tony_Mauro@transarc.com
3 To: Derrick J Brashear <shadow+@andrew.cmu.edu>
4 Subject: returning to TR-20916 (Rx redistributability)
8 Back in March, I opened report TR-20916 in response to your question
9 about whether it was true that Rx is freely redistributable, as
10 represented to you by Jim Doyle of Boston University. I apologize
11 that there has been such a long delay in any further action, but I'd
12 like to work now on resolving it. Mike Kazar has confirmed for me
13 that he made parts of Rx freely redistributable with Alfred Spector's
14 approval, so I don't anticipate a problem, but I'd like to clear
15 things with our licensing/contracts dept too. As a first step, can
16 you please send me a copy of the copyright from the header that Jim
19 From what I understand, Rx was developed at CMU as part of a DARPA
20 funded research project jointly funded by IBM. Rx was picked up by
21 the AFS group and then used.. So, by all rights, the Rx stack is in
22 the public domain because the DARPA funding requirement placed it
23 there... You can read the copyright in the header for the full
26 With this in hand, I'll be in a better position to answer our
27 Licensing guy's questions.