1 2Multics License 3 4Historical Background 5 6This edition of the Multics software materials and documentation is 7provided and donated to Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Group 8BULL including BULL HN Information Systems Inc. as a contribution to 9computer science knowledge. This donation is made also to give evidence 10of the common contributions of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 11Bell Laboratories, General Electric, Honeywell Information Systems 12Inc., Honeywell BULL Inc., Groupe BULL and BULL HN Information Systems 13Inc. to the development of this operating system. Multics development 14was initiated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Project MAC 15(1963-1970), renamed the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and 16Artificial Intelligence in the mid 1970s, under the leadership of 17Professor Fernando Jose Corbato. Users consider that Multics provided the 18best software architecture for managing computer hardware properly and 19for executing programs. Many subsequent operating systems incorporated 20Multics principles. Multics was distributed in 1975 to 2000 by Group 21Bull in Europe , and in the U.S. by Bull HN Information Systems Inc., as 22successor in interest by change in name only to Honeywell Bull Inc. and 23Honeywell Information Systems Inc. . 24 25----------------------------------------------------------- 26 27Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute these programs and their 28documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,provided 29that the below copyright notice and historical background appear in all 30copies and that both the copyright notice and historical background and 31this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that 32the names of MIT, HIS, BULL or BULL HN not be used in advertising or 33publicity pertaining to distribution of the programs without specific 34prior written permission. 35Copyright 1972 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Honeywell Information 36Systems Inc. 37Copyright 2006 by BULL HN Information Systems Inc. 38Copyright 2006 by Bull SAS 39All Rights Reserved 40 41