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From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Berkeley Strikes Back?
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Date: 4 Aug 92 14:03:50 GMT
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scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:

>No, it sounds right.  UCB/CRSG was signing stock AT&T academic licenses.
>Again, please allow for hazy memory . . . the first few UNIX licenses I
>saw were from Western Electric for UNIX v7 and System III.  That clause
>appeared with the V32 release, and UCB wouldn't sign.  Therefore the
>last license they signed was probably from WE.

[[ background -- the clause I'm referring to says that AT&T owns
   the modifications you make to UNIX. ]]

Our 1984 BSD license has surfaced from our files here, and I gotta
correct some errors I made above.

The license says " . . . AT&T Corporation and/or its predecessor Western
Electric Company . . . "  So it had become AT&T's UNIX by then.

The license also says " . . .  the Fourth Berkeley Software
Distribution contains proprietary software beloing to AT&T and licensed
by AT&T as UNIX/32V.  LICENCEE [[that's us]] represents and warrants
that it has obtained and currently holds a valid license to use
UNIX/V32, SYSTEM-III and/or SYSTEM-V . . ."

Clearly UCB did sign a 32V license; clearly System V licenses were
available when UCB issued their license to us; clearly a System V
license was *not* used for BSD4.X.  So the clause probably appeared
with System V.
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