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From: alex@waterloo.hp.com (Alex Dumitru)
Subject: Re: *BSD ILLEGAL???
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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 15:47:47 GMT
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David E. Fox (root@belvedere.sbay.org) wrote:
: Daniel Leeds (dleeds@MCS.COM) wrote:

: : 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.  
: Call his bluff. Say "I'm not going to switch, so go ahead and sue me...

While I don't think it's *illegal* to have it or use it, I wonder what the
policy is for those of us that have source trees that incorporate the
Net/2 distribution, and allow others to browse them and/or download stuff.

cheers
alex