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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!bofh.dot!usenet.seri.re.kr!bofh.dot!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD 4.3 (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) Date: 24 May 1996 21:21:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4o598g$n9l@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nvp7l$4d4@church.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E dsantry@church.dcss.McMaster.CA (Douglas Santry) wrote: > A small legal question, since BSD 4.3 is "encumbered", does that > mean that *all* of the kernel source code is unusable? Can > somebody, for instance pluck the network code for the udp-tcp/ip and > use it? Or is the entire source tree for the kernel hands-off? > Really one can use the code from 4.4-lites ofcourse but I am just > curious... First off, FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 wasn't strictly ``4.3BSD'' (it's been ``4.4BSD / 2''), and of course, nobody says that 4.3BSD as a whole is ``encumbered''. The outcome from the BSD quarrel has been quite a bit differently (and more difficulty) than that. Legally spoken, you are in no way bound to any result of the BSDi/USL/UCB lawsuit. If <insert today's owner of the UNIX sources> has a claim, they will have to battle it against you explicitly. Of course, picking 4.4BSD-Lite (or Lite2) is certainly a wise decision, since one of the results of the mentioned lawsuit was that this one counts as ``legally blessed''. All of this aside, i think the IP networking code was never an issue at all. It's quite obvious for anybody that this one is a Berkeley thing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)