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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!gwh From: gwh@soda.berkeley.edu (George William Herbert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Berkeley Strikes Back? Date: 30 Jul 1992 10:21:43 GMT Organization: Dis- Lines: 21 Sender: gwh@soda.berkeley.edu (George William Herbert) Message-ID: <158frnINN5cn@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu Summary: It works both ways if it has to. The "Berkeley License" currently gives anyone the right to use BSD derived code in any way as long as it's clear it's at the users risk and the license is kept on it. That is not set in stone. Berkeley could conceivably pull the right for USL to resell anything with "Copyright the Regents..." in it, or derived therefrom. How long would it take USL to make SVR4x BSD-Free? Six months? A year? Eighteen months, plus some while the attorneys haggle? The UC Regents don't lose any sales, but USL would... -george william herbert gwh@soda.berkeley.edu gwh@lurnix.com herbert@uchu.isu92.ac.jp until 28 aug ++ copyright (c) george william herbert. All rights except usenet ++ ++ transmission/use and inclusion in followup/reply articles/mail reserved. ++ Disclaimer: I sure as hell don't speak for UC Berkeley, it's Regents, or anything else official. Have a nice day 8-)