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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:13820 comp.bugs.2bsd:481 comp.bugs.4bsd:2029 comp.unix.internals:7136 comp.unix.misc:12157 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!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!vixie!vixie From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie) 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: 28 Apr 94 02:46:22 Organization: Vixie Enterprises Lines: 15 Message-ID: <VIXIE.94Apr28024622@office.home.vix.com> References: <2p9esl$lam@agate.berkeley.edu> <1994Apr27.074929.1863@newsroom.bsc.no> <VIXIE.94Apr27133921@office.home.vix.com> <1994Apr28.081937.22945@newsroom.bsc.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: office.home.vix.com In-reply-to: md@bsc.no's message of Thu, 28 Apr 1994 08:19:37 GMT >I was thinking more of a private distribution only to current license >holders. UCB should have a list of who 4.4 was distributed to so it should >be easy to identify who should have these patches. If this can't be done, >then the question still remains, how do people with the original 4.4 >distribution get upgraded to the current level? Either buy a tape, or get it from a friend. There is absolutely nothing in the 4.4-lite license that prevents people from handing it around, either on tape or via anonymous FTP. I suspect that now that the tape is out, FTP mirror sites will spring up all over. -- Paul Vixie Redwood City, CA decwrl!vixie!paul <paul@vix.com>