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Subject: UCB and USL/NOVELL settlement
Date: 10 Apr 94 13:08:58 GMT
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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Summary: UCB and USL/NOVELL settlement
Keywords: UCB USL NOVELL
tgm@netcom.com (Thomas G. McWilliams) writes:
>Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote:
>: Hi,
>: I saw a couple of postings on comp.os.386bsd.questions that USL wants
>: distributors of 386bsd derivatives to stop distribution!
>: Has anyone of the NetBSD team been contacted?
>: Does anyone knows what is going on from the USL side?
>: I find the current situation a bit odd because USL vs BSDI & UCB lawsuits
>: are over...
>Actually the outcome of the lawsuit was to encumber the Net/2
>sources. The primary copyright holders, Univ. of California and
>Novell, *both* have requested the halt of distributions of Net/2
>derivatives. The 4.4BSD/lite distribution was suggested as the
>substitution. The statement released be the University of
>California asked that free distributions be based solely on the
>unencumbered 4.4/lite. Part of the reason is that UCB has relinquished
>copyright claim to portions of the Net/2 tree. These portions
Why did UCB do this ??? Bloody traitors.
>now must display a Novell copyright, and evidently Novell seems
>to be serious about cracking down on copyright violators.
So now NOVELL is the new "Deathstar". Lets boycot the bastards. I have to
decide on a major new enterprise wide network. IT WON'T BE NOVELL. I'm
considering BANYAN. Any ideas.
Is there any chance of NOVELL/USL being able to prevent us here in Australia
from putting NET/2 or {Free,Net,386}BSD up for FTP or even publishing the
CDROMs?
Is there anybody at UCB or BSDI willing to give us access to the "secret"
parts of the settlement? There are ways of posting it anonymously. I
believe a reasonably large number of people would have knowledge of these
"secret" parts.
Also is there anybody who knows which parts are affected by Novells copy-
rights?
>Several CD-Rom distributors have already been contacted. Use of
>the Net/2 tree now requires formal licensing and $$$.
>Thomas
>tgm@netcom.com
Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au)