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From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: USL vs. 386BSD derivatives
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 21:40:26 GMT
Message-ID: <Co2C7F.E3p@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
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In <hastyCnwoL5.F9z@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>I am sure that if usl keeps suing people that eventually they may win
>a case :)

Might be.  And that might affect BSDI too in the worst case.

>Also, given that  bsd4.4-lite is going to be  freely available and that 
>BSDI continues to release bsd,

BSDI has explicit permission to release BSD/386 1.1 in source code
until they can update the source base to 4.4-lite.  Except for a
couple of files which they are allowed to ship only as .o files.
(I believe this is an accurate summary.)

>it is pretty much  senseless  for usl
>to stop the net2 distribution already available on the Net.

Go tell that USL's lawyers.

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Christoph Badura	bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org		+49 721 606137

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