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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: BSD 4.3 (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) Message-ID: <DrwrsB.A8t.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <4nvp7l$4d4@church.dcss.McMaster.CA> Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 11:55:22 GMT Lines: 23 In article <4nvp7l$4d4@church.dcss.McMaster.CA> dsantry@church.dcss.McMaster.CA (Douglas Santry) writes: >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? If it doesn't contain any proprietary code, you can use it. Of course, you might have to defend yourself in court if USL (or whoever it is now) claim that it does contain such code, though this is unlikely. >Really one can use the code from 4.4-lites ofcourse >but I am just curious... If for some reason you really want the 4.3 code, you could get it from the Net-2 distribution (if you can find it), since that was deliberately intended to be free from USL code. If you want code that's had as many bugs fixed as possible I guess it would make more sense to use the code from FreeBSD or NetBSD. -- Richard -- How to have fun on Usenet, #1: Post a message to alt.sex saying "please take me off the Cindi Crawford nude pix mailing list, it's filling up my mailbox". Be sure to set followups to include misc.test and sci.aquaria.