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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12163 comp.bugs.4bsd:1967 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.bugs.4bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!sgi!rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com!vjs From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Release Message-ID: <iss30as@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA References: <20qdsj$6rt@agate.berkeley.edu> <20qq3p$ke6@wsrcc.com> <1993Jul1.034113@eklektix.com> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 14:56:01 GMT Lines: 29 In article <1993Jul1.034113@eklektix.com>, rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes: > ... > >...What good are ones > >attack dogs if they are afraid of the other guys attack dogs?... > > The university's "attack dogs" are probably mostly concerned with defense > of the university. Unlike many large corporations, universities can't > generally make money suing other organizations. ... I wonder about that in this particular case. The SVR3 and SVR4 source includes a lot of BSD source, but not a lot of references to the Regents of the University of California. Look at the System V network code. Of course, maybe the BSD copyright is satisfied anyway. I know I don't understand what is or is not required to satisfy it for a commercial product, exactly where you must give BSD credit. > ... > (And the worst of it is that nobody in power at USL seems to have a clue > that this whole affair amounts to little more than a sales promotion effort > for Microsoft...) And for Netware. (Remember USL's new bosses.) Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com