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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!cf-cm!myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk!paul From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: FreeBSD1.1.5??? Message-ID: <1994Jun22.153959.5131@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Organization: ELSYM, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, UK. References: <2u4p1r$1jn@keltia.frmug.fr.net> <2t7m50$22b@keltia.frmug <2u79na$c55@news.ysu.edu> <2u9fdv$jvs@chleuasme.francenet.fr> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 15:39:58 +0000 Lines: 35 In article <2u9fdv$jvs@chleuasme.francenet.fr>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@francenet.fr> wrote: >Christopher L. Mikkelson (ap713@yfn.ysu.edu) wrote: >: >1.1.5 alpha is being built just now so expect 1.1.5 to hit the streets at >: >the end of the month [roughly]. Wait for official announcements... > >: Are there going to be any legal problems with 1.1.5? I had heard that >: nobody was going to release it on CD-ROM. > >The FreeBSD team has authorizations from USL about that I think... 1.1.5 will be >available on CD-ROM (remember, freebsd and freefall are in the cdrom.com domain >:-) ). > 1.1.5 will NOT be released on CDROM. The conditions of the agreement are such that distribution of the encumbered code must cease on July 31st. This includes distribution on CDROM too so Walnut Creek isn't likely to release a 1.1.5 cdrom with only a few weeks to sell it. In any case, it would take longer than we have left just to get them produced. 1.1.5 will vanish from the cdrom.com ftp sites around that time too. Don't panic though. The USL agreement only affects a few people, Walnut Creek being one of them. Once 1.1.5 is out in the world I suspect most of the mirror sites will keep the sources available since they won't have USL agreements which oblige them to cease distribution. (I'm predicting that the next question will be whether the 1.1 CDROM's are still going to be available after July 31st, well the answer to that is I don't know. Jack, you reading this?) -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK