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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!02-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!usenet From: mycroft@zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Another censored piece of mail... Date: 16 Aug 1996 13:34:45 -0400 Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 18 Message-ID: <el291bfutai.fsf@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU> References: <DERAADT.96Aug12153527@zeus.theos.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.37/Emacs 19.30 deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) 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. This is almost as bad as when Linus claimed that the networking code in Net/2 was encumbered...