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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!agate!theos.com!deraadt From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Another censored piece of mail... Date: 16 Aug 1996 19:49:09 GMT Organization: Theo Ports Kernels For Fun And Profit, Inc. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <DERAADT.96Aug16134909@zeus.theos.com> References: <DERAADT.96Aug12153527@zeus.theos.com> <el291bfutai.fsf@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.theos.com In-reply-to: mycroft@zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu's message of 16 Aug 1996 13:34:45 -0400 In article <el291bfutai.fsf@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU> mycroft@zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) writes: > > The basic story is that Chris Demetriou and Adam Glass pulled pieces > of encumbered 4.4 source code off vangogh.berkeley.edu while the > lawsuit was still on-going [...] Of course, there's a distinction between `encumbered 4.4 source' and `4.4-Encumbered source'. The latter includes a large amount of code that was either written by or donated to Berkeley. It is pieces of this code, and not the `magic 7 files', that were integrated into NetBSD. In fact, none of this code was actually encumbered, except by the standard Berkeley freeware license. As far as I know, Chris and Adam and you never got permission to use pieces of code you took off vangogh. That makes it as encumbered as it needs to be; NetBSD should not have used that code. Or did you? -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@theos.com