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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Release
Message-ID: <iss30as@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
References: <20qdsj$6rt@agate.berkeley.edu> <20qq3p$ke6@wsrcc.com> <1993Jul1.034113@eklektix.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 14:56:01 GMT
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In article <1993Jul1.034113@eklektix.com>, rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
> ...
> >...What good are ones
> >attack dogs if they are afraid of the other guys attack dogs?...
> 
> The university's "attack dogs" are probably mostly concerned with defense
> of the university.  Unlike many large corporations, universities can't
> generally make money suing other organizations.  ...

I wonder about that in this particular case.

The SVR3 and SVR4 source includes a lot of BSD source, but not
a lot of references to the Regents of the University of California.
Look at the System V network code.

Of course, maybe the BSD copyright is satisfied anyway.  I know
I don't understand what is or is not required to satisfy it for a
commercial product, exactly where you must give BSD credit.


> ...
> (And the worst of it is that nobody in power at USL seems to have a clue
> that this whole affair amounts to little more than a sales promotion effort
> for Microsoft...)

And for Netware.   (Remember USL's new bosses.)


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com