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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!eru.mt.luth.se!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: List of OpenBSD changes Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:18:08 -0400 Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 18 Message-ID: <el2d90ruwu7.fsf@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU> References: <DERAADT.96Aug11183115@zeus.theos.com> <v63f1r3im1.fsf@kechara.flame.org> <DERAADT.96Aug13013402@zeus.theos.com> <Dw6rqy.FEJ@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.37/Emacs 19.30 richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: > > In article <DERAADT.96Aug13013402@zeus.theos.com> deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) writes: > > 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. Even more directly, the history section of the 4.4BSD book states flat out that Net/2 is unencumbered. Not that this is relevant, since the code in question hasn't been distributed by any of the groups for a long time.