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From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.bugs.2bsd,comp.bugs.4bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution announcement
Date: 27 Apr 1994 23:14:14 GMT
Organization: CICNet, Inc.
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References: <2p4ieg$89j@agate.berkeley.edu> <2p9esl$lam@agate.berkeley.edu> <1994Apr27.074929.1863@newsroom.bsc.no> <VIXIE.94Apr27133921@office.home.vix.com>
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In article <VIXIE.94Apr27133921@office.home.vix.com>,
Paul A Vixie <vixie@vix.com> wrote:
|>I've heard nothing from UCB indicating that they intended to publish diffs
|>for 4.4->4.4lite.  Since such diffs would consist mainly of removing files
|>or large chunks of files, and since such removal could be reversed using
|>"patch -R", someone with 4.4-lite could generate a fairly complete 4.4ish
|>system without actually possessing the relevant USL/Novell licenses.

Fair enough.  

Anyone know what would happen if you just extracted the "lite" release
on top of a pre-existing encumbered source tree?  Seems like if the
structure coincided that would be the easiest way to update it without
publishing "criminal" diffs or complicating Berkeley's job of 
distributing the sources.

Maybe that's a stupid idea; I haven't seen what the "lite" distribution
actually looks like yet.

--
Paul Southworth
CICNet Systems Support
pauls@cic.net