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From: tsm@cs.brown.edu (Timothy Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: The 4.4-lite mystery revealed... (was Re: 4.4-lite?)
Date: 23 Jun 1994 19:41:13 GMT
Organization: Brown University
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In article <JKH.94Jun23091516@nx.ilo.dec.com>,
Jordan Hubbard <jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com> wrote:
>:-) I *did* take a CD home with me from the show and it's now in
>freefall.cdrom.com's drive, available to all who have accounts there.
>Rather restrictive, you say? Well, it turns out that if you want
>permission to *redistribute* the 4.4 Lite bits then you need to have a
>signed agreement with the UCB distribution office (Pauline
>somebodyorother handles it). It has been the delay in getting this
Er, this is interesting, as the availability announcement for 4.4BSD-Lite said:
The 4.4BSD-Lite software is copyrighted by the Univer-
sity of California and others, but may be freely redistri-
buted without fee. It is available to anyone and requires
no previous license from AT&T, Novell/USL, or The Regents of
the University of California. The distribution includes
both software developed at Berkeley and much software con-
tributed by authors outside Berkeley. The code in this dis-
tribution may be redistributed and used in released products
without fee, if the due credit, copyright notice, and other
requirements described in the license and the source files
are met.
It does say in the announcement that you have to sign something to get it from
UCB directly, but I can't find any other restrictions on other people
redistributing it. Is there something I missed?
Tim