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From: bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution announcement
Date: 30 Apr 1994 15:35:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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References: <2p4ieg$89j@agate.berkeley.edu> <VIXIE.94Apr27133921@office.home.vix.com> <2pmrk6$bar@spruce.cic.net> <Coy234.HHz@kithrup.com>
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In article <Coy234.HHz@kithrup.com>, Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> wrote:
>(Note the new newsgroup.)
>In article <2pmrk6$bar@spruce.cic.net> pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) w
rites:
>>Anyone know what would happen if you just extracted the "lite" release
>>on top of a pre-existing encumbered source tree?
>
>That wouldn't really be feasible, since there were (as far as I could
>tell) changes after the original 4.4 release. Copyrights were changed on
>some kernel files, and there were some new files.
Sean and Paul are right. As we did not know when the lawsuit
would end, we continued normal development in some areas. The
4.4BSD-Encumbered and 4.4BSD-Lite trees are substantially different.
Keith Bostic
CSRG
University of California
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