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From: hughes@napa.eng.uop.edu (Ken Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: *BSD ILLEGAL???
Date: 17 Apr 1994 01:27:34 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of the Pacific
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie) wrote:
: In article <2ok76t$h81@Mercury.mcs.com> dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds) writes:
: Some weird chap just sent me email in answer to a question I had about
: NetBSD and FreeBSD...he claims that netBSD and FreeBSD are now illegal
: and I will get sued 100,000 dollars if I use it.
:
: Is this man smoking crack before he reads news...does anybody have
: any ideas as to why this freak whould tell me they are ILLEGAL to use.
: They're not illegal to use. For awhile, the legality of doing
: _further distributions_ of some of them was a bit up in the air, but
: for FreeBSD, at least, this has now been resolved
.... [text deleted] ....
Jordan,
Can you elaborate more on what the "resolution" means? There are many
of us who have been waiting for FreeBSD-1.1-RELEASE, but can the core team
give us a new time frame now?
--
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(khughes@uop.edu) | I'm going to have to send my SAT
Electrical and Computer Engr | scores to San Quentin instead of
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