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From: Mike.Long@analog.com (Michael W. Long)
Subject: Re: *BSD ILLEGAL???
In-Reply-To: imp@boulder.parcplace.com's message of 26 Apr 1994 03:24:37 -0400
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 00:17:32 GMT

They call him the packrat...

Note that the files mentioned by this message are only the encumbered
kernel sources.  Some of the userland stuff was also tainted, but I
think all of it has been replaced with GNU equivalents.

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From owner-freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Tue Feb  8 19:00:38 1994
Date:     Tue, 8 Feb 94 15:22:22 PST
From: sef@kithrup.com
Subject:  thos tainted files
To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Cc: bostic@cs.berkeley.edu
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Rob Kolstad (now President of BSDI, I'd congratulate him here but he'd never
see it :)) sent out a message, bless him:

>Q:  What's all this about `binary-only files'?  Will BSDI continue to
>    ship source code?
>A:  For Version 1.1 only, BSDI will ship the following kernel files
>    in binary format:
>
>	kern/init_main.c	kern/subr_rmap.c	ufs/ufs_bmap.c
>	kern/kern_clock.c	kern/sys_generic.c	ufs/ufs_disksubr.c
>	kern/kern_exit.c	kern/sys_process.c	ufs/ufs_inode.c
>	kern/kern_physio.c	kern/tty.c		ufs/ufs_vnops.c
>	kern/kern_sig.c		kern/tty_subr.c
>	kern/kern_synch.c	kern/vfs_syscalls.c
>
>    Our 4.4Lite-based release will again include the entire source tree
>    (with the exception of a tiny number of device drivers whose
>    interfaces are kept confidential at the request of their
>    manufacturer).

Some of those surprise me a lot, given that some of them had nothing but
empty functions in them.  Whatever.

*BSD are still affected by some of these, at least.  So someone needs
to get a copy of 4.4BSD-Lite ASAP.  I would, but I don't have any money;
I'll be trying to see if I can get my company to get one.  Can WC cought
up the money for it?  (I'm assuming it'll be about $800 or so, just like
the Net/2 release, but I don't know how much it'll really be.)

Sean.

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