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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!retix!spock!joshua From: joshua@sleepy.retix.com (joshua geller) Subject: Re: The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution announcement Message-ID: <JOSHUA.94Apr22231703@sleepy.retix.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd In-reply-to: grau@theben.mch.sni.de's message of 22 Apr 1994 20:45:20 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sleepy.retix.com References: <2p4ieg$89j@agate.berkeley.edu> <Cons40.6H2@bull.nl> <2p9d10INN63i@theben.mch.sni.de> Date: 23 Apr 1994 06:17:02 GMT Lines: 31 In article <2p9d10INN63i@theben.mch.sni.de> grau@theben.mch.sni.de (Guenter Grau) writes: > Jos Vos (jos@bull.nl) wrote: > : bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes: > : > To obtain 4.4BSD-Lite we require execution of the > : >Berkeley License Agreement (3/94). In addition, foreign > : >licensees must execute Addendum Number One for Foreign > : >Licensees in ordering 4.4BSD-Lite. The fee is $1000.00 for > : >4.4BSD-Lite. > : Does this mean that 4.4SD-Lite will not become available on > : FTP-sites, or are sites (after paying $1000.00) allowed to > : make it available for the Internet community? > As far as I understood it, this is true. Perhaps they didn't make it > available, because they wanted to earn some money, before everybody > can ftp it. The origional announcement stated, that it has the usual > BSD copyright notice, which allows you to freely redistribute the > stuff. What I do not understand is, why are they making such a heck > around the licensing? the part that confuses me is this: we have an at&t source license. the chances of me convincing management to spend $2500 on 4.4 encumbered for me to play with are small to nonexistent. but *if we obtained it elsewhere* it would be perfectly legit for us to have, yes? the berkeley portions are publicly redistributable and we have a license for the at&t/usl/novell/beatrice portions. josh