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From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: BSD lawsuit question.
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 19:30:47 GMT
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In article <5uzwTMY.dysonj@delphi.com> John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> writes:
>Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> 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.
>>This is an important distinction.  It must be removed by July 31st.
> 
>Now, I am not a *direct* party any of the agreements, so I am not speaking
>with authority -- but I was under the impression that only parties to the
>agreements needed to remove the copies of FreeBSD V1.X.

The current plan, as far as I can tell, is for Walnut Creek CD to stop
distributing FreeBSD on that date, but that mirror sites, such as
gatekeeper.dec.com will still have the release available.  The
discussions about the agreement I saw indicated that this issue was
raised by the FreeBSD folks at the time and USL said that was cool.

In fact, people have gone to great lengths to make sure there are
mirror sites setup all over the world, so that when July 31 rolls
around, people can still get copies of FreeBSD.

Warner
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