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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.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: List of OpenBSD changes X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pitcairn Message-ID: <Dw6rqy.FEJ@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Sender: cnews@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (C News Software) Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <DERAADT.96Aug11183115@zeus.theos.com> <v63f1r3im1.fsf@kechara.flame.org> <DERAADT.96Aug13013402@zeus.theos.com> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 15:44:58 GMT Lines: 26 In article <DERAADT.96Aug13013402@zeus.theos.com> deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) writes: >You're just mad because I talked about the fact that the NetBSD source >tree is polluted with illegal source code from during the BSDi/UCB/AT&T >lawsuit. I don't know what this refers to, but I'd like to point out that there's no reason to suppose that any BSD code is "illegal". Neither UCB or BSDI admitted any such thing, nor was there any judgment suggesting it. On the contrary, the preliminary ruling indicated that the judge did not consider USL's case likely to succeed, and even suggested that there might well be no copyright in Unix 32V at all. BSDI and UCB made certain agreements with USL when the case was settled, and I believe the FreeBSD and NetBSD teams may also have done so, but the rest of us haven't and aren't restricted in any way by those agreements. Some documents from the case can be found at http://macbeth.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/doc/usl-vs-bsd/ (these were copied from the BSDI web site). -- Richard -- Margaret Thatcher, Bill Gates, Canter & Siegel, Ian Paisley, Rupert Murdoch