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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!atha!canada!lyndon From: lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Summary: Spreading the Gospel Message-ID: <103@ampr.ab.ca> Date: 29 Jul 92 16:46:11 GMT References: <l6rld6INN3dh@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Jul29.073959.3841@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca> Organization: Boycott AT&T! Lines: 16 dennis@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca (Dennis Breckenridge VE7TCP) writes: > joeg@gagme (joe grosch) writes: > >I urge all those on the net who have copys of either Net2, BSDI, or 386BSD > >to start making copys and distributing them as far and wide as possible. > Are you absolutely out of your mind? Distributing licensed sources is > not only immoral but totally illegal. Both NET/2 and 386BSD can be distributed freely without a license. Only the BSDI code (aka BSD/386) requires a license be executed. (Nice term that one :-) How many sites outside of the US have full copies of the free'd NET/2 distribution available for anonymous FTP? The more countries we can make it available from the better ...