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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!jjsmith From: jjsmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jonathan J. Smith) Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Message-ID: <1992Jul21.142631.14517@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users. Keywords: AT&T 'Death Star' rises over BSDI's horizon [Tel. 1-800-800-4BSD Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept. References: <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 14:26:31 GMT Lines: 13 Hrm well to the uneducated in legalieze (me) this sounds just a tad unlikely, First of I believe that AT&T has to PROVE that said things actually were based on derived from intellectual property of AT&T. I also believe that burden of proof lies with AT&T. To me it sounds a shade unlikely that they could possibly prove that , I COULD be totaly wrong here however. Just doubting that is will happen i guess, sounds way to unreasonable. Besides its not the END of ALL unlicensed *nix stuff, Look at the GNU project, or MACH stuff.. unless AT&T is going to claim those fall under its intellectual property also!. Jonathan Smith