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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Release
Message-ID: <20251@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 1 Jul 93 22:22:20 GMT
References: <20qq3p$ke6@wsrcc.com> <1993Jul1.034113@eklektix.com> <iss30as@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
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In article <iss30as@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
>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.

As I heard it, this was the result of an earlier deal worked
out between UCB and AT&T, giving the latter rights to the
former's software as compensation for some infringement on
the rights of the latter.  Somebody will undoubtedly correct
me if this is not the case..