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