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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd 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!EU.net!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: BSDI/FreeBSD Message-ID: <Cwy5uq.BL1@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <940928235222@palmer.demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 14:35:13 GMT Lines: 25 In article <940928235222@palmer.demon.co.uk> gary@palmer.demon.co.uk writes: >Actually, AFAIK the settlement says that whatever the various producers of >BSD derrived code do, The settlement is an agreement between USL, UCB and BSDI. It says nothing whatever about anyone else. Other groups may have come to their own agreements with USL. > they can't have any code in it which has a USL >'claim' on it, unless they require their customers to have USL licences. The crux of the case was whether there were any parts of Net/2 that USL owned, and that was not determined, since there was no judgement. The judges comments suggested that USL's case was weak. As far as 4.4lite (why did they have to call it that? 4.4detox would have been a much better name) goes, the settlement suggests that even USL realise that they have no claim on it. -- 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.