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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:1682 comp.os.386bsd.development:3201 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5384 comp.unix.bsd:16170 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!noc.near.net!monk.proteon.com!jfw From: jfw@proteon.com (John Woods) Subject: Re: Cannons Away: Vote NO on newsgroup reformation. Message-ID: <D404Fp.40H@proteon.com> Sender: news@proteon.com Nntp-Posting-Host: kerplop.proteon.com Organization: Proteon, Inc., Westborough, Ma. References: <D3o5Ew.8x2@nbn.com> <3ha6og$pbk@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> <kaleb.792253018@exalt> <3hbpf8$q7c@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> <kaleb.792343226@exalt> <3hebt1$1r2@park.uvsc.edu> <kaleb.792415474@fedora.x.org> <D3x63K.D28@indirect.com> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 17:55:00 GMT Lines: 21 wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) writes: >How 'bout last summer's consent decree, declaring once and forever >that '4.4 BSD Lite' contains no 'UNIX' source code? You dork! Actually, that's not what the consent decree said. The consent decree said that UCB would agree to add a "(c) UNIX System Laboratories, Inc." to several files (while not admitting USL's authorship) in exchange for USL's agreement that the files could be distributed ad libitum (there were three or so that UCB agreed to rewrite entirely); USL agreed that they would add a UCB copyright notice to the pounds and pounds of documentation they ship, and their current TCP/IP state machine implementation (while not admitting UCB's authorship) in exchange for UCB dropping the lawsuit filed against USL which USL had absolutely no hope of winning, given that they were blatant, obvious copies with no added or changed material whatsoever (none of this "continually improve the source until the ancestry isn't visible" for them, no); and the parties all generally agreed that it was time to stop hitting each other. Of course, since (I think) UCB never paid to use the UNIX trademark, even if 4.4BSD Lite were a literal transcription of UNIX 32/V, they would not currently be entitled to use the UNIX trademark.