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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Release Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 06:39:37 GMT Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Message-ID: <9307120139.38@rmkhome.UUCP> References: <iss30as@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> <20251@smoke.brl.mil> <21juef$ri6@agate.berkeley.edu> Lines: 29 In article <21juef$ri6@agate.berkeley.edu> bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes: >In article <20251@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >>In article <iss30as@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes: >>>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. >> >>As I heard it, this was the result of an earlier deal worked >>out between UCB and AT&T, giving the latter rights to the >>former's software as compensation for some infringement on >>the rights of the latter. Somebody will undoubtedly correct >>me if this is not the case.. > >I've never heard of any such arrangement. I believe that >USL/AT&T/Novell is required to credit the University of >California for the 4BSD software that they ship, and I don't >think that they do. > >My favorite is the System V ABI that includes a member of the >CSRG's birthday (as a file system magic number), but fails to >mention the University of California in any way. > >--keith > Ah, but some of the SVR4 stuff snuck in under a Sun copyright. -- Rick Kelly rmk%rmkhome@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP