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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
In-Reply-To: sef@kithrup.COM's message of Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:37:57 GMT
Message-ID: <MEISSNER.92Jul28143243@tiktok.osf.org>
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References: <1992Jul24.165236.10937@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1992Jul24.185653.3196@kithrup.COM>
	<1992Jul27.164228.28312@gateway.novell.com>
	<1992Jul27.193757.3628@kithrup.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:32:43
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In article <1992Jul27.193757.3628@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean
Eric Fagan) writes:

| >2)	OSF has licensed Mentat streams for inclusion, not AT&T.  The code
| >	is un-AT&T-encumbered, and runs on many diverse platforms (for
| >	instance, it also runs on VMS).
| 
| That's nice.  They also bought a SysVr3.x license, about three or four years
| ago, and the code they are shipping as "OSF/1," for both the macro- and
| micro-kernel stuff, still requires a USL source license, if you want source.

Try System V.2, not V.3.
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Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting.