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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2818 comp.os.386bsd.questions:11801 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: BSD lawsuit question. Message-ID: <CtJov8.J6y@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <1994Jul24.205056.23692@cc.usu.edu> <michaelv.775146623@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 11:21:08 GMT Lines: 22 In article <michaelv.775146623@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >No, all copies of *FreeBSD* will have to be removed, because FreeBSD >1.x is based on the BNR2/4.3BSD code, which is legally encumbered. No, the FreeBSD will have to remove all their copies of FreeBSD, because they have agreed with USL to do so. No-one who hasn't made such an agreement has to, but some people might do so out of fear of a lawsuit from USL. Nor is FreeBSD (or NetBSD, or 386BSD, or Net/2) "legally encumbered". There was no legal decision in the USL/BSD case, just an agreement between the parties. I'm sorry to have to be so persistent about this, but I don't want people thinking that USL won their case either legally or morally. -- 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.