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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU!bostic From: bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Release Date: 9 Jul 1993 14:13:35 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 Message-ID: <21juef$ri6@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <20qq3p$ke6@wsrcc.com> <1993Jul1.034113@eklektix.com> <iss30as@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> <20251@smoke.brl.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: toe.cs.berkeley.edu In article <20251@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >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.. I've never heard of any such arrangement. I believe that USL/AT&T/Novell is required to credit the University of California for the 4BSD software that they ship, and I don't think that they do. My favorite is the System V ABI that includes a member of the CSRG's birthday (as a file system magic number), but fails to mention the University of California in any way. --keith