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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 to FreeBSD-??? Message-ID: <Cszpqn.D6w@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <3031ps$d1u@dopey.cc.utexas.edu> <michaelv.774191014@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <1994Jul15.102530.17910@cm.cf.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 16:27:58 GMT Lines: 27 In article <1994Jul15.102530.17910@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes: >This is undoubtedly going to be considered inflammatory Too right. >Incidentally, a completeley 4.4BSD-lite kernel wouldn't mean an >unencumbered system since the whole Net-2 tape is encumbered. The term "encumbered" has no legal standing. USL has won no judgement declaring any of Net/2 to be in any way their property. UCB and BSDI entered into an agreement with USL. I believe that the FreeBSD people have too. None of this has any legal implications for anyone else. >ANY file which can be traced back to that tape which you still have >will encumber the release. Maybe USL believe this. The rest of us should not give credence to such an absurd doctrine. What are you doing USL's lawyers' job for? [Note: I have no idea whether the NetBSD team have spoken to USL.] -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk Ooooh! I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.