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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0, 4.4BSD-Lite, and 4.4BSD
Message-ID: <D5DvrD.L42@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <95068.131339SHIH@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu> <kientzleD58Lrq.4Cy@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:47:37 GMT
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In article <kientzleD58Lrq.4Cy@netcom.com> kientzle@netcom.com writes:
>Earlier releases of BSD included Unix source code which meant that you
>had to have a Unix source license from USL in order to use it.

USL asserted that you needed a license; whether this is true has not
been (and probably never will be) legally determined, and USL's
position appeared weak at least for the code in the Berkeley Net-2
distribution.

>386BSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD are three different systems that
>start with 4.4BSD-Lite,

No, 386BSD was based on the Berkeley Net-2 distribution, as were
earlier versions of FreeBSD and NetBSD.  Perhaps you meant to say
BSD386, which I believe is now called BSD/OS or something similar.

-- Richard