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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!slate!mbarkah From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah) Subject: Re: Is *BSD Unix? (was: Re: Is FreeBSD free?) Message-ID: <1994Dec9.170350.85528@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 17:03:50 GMT References: <cc.andrews.edu> <1994Dec3.084230.18858@durie.wanganui.gen.nz>> <JKH.94Dec4001838@whisker.hubbard.ie> <D0Hs5F.MFw@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: Colorado School of Mines X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Lines: 17 Richard Tobin (richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) wrote: : [* I have no idea whether the trademark status of "Unix" would stand : up in court. For example, AT&T's own publications have referred to : "Berkeley Unix" and it might well be judged to have become a generic : term.] Well, the "Berkeley Unix" in AT&T's literature was `real' Unix. Berkeley held full source license from Bell Labs, and the 1.0BSD was a direct port from Bell Lab's Sixth Edition UNIX (so called Research Unix). Similarly, 3BSD was a 32-bit Seventh Edition UNIX port (V/32). Back then, BSD source code were only distributed to those already having source license from Bell Labs. -Ade Barkah