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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!think.com!paperboy.osf.org!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! In-Reply-To: sef@kithrup.COM's message of Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:37:57 GMT Message-ID: <MEISSNER.92Jul28143243@tiktok.osf.org> Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System) Organization: Open Software Foundation References: <1992Jul24.165236.10937@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1992Jul24.185653.3196@kithrup.COM> <1992Jul27.164228.28312@gateway.novell.com> <1992Jul27.193757.3628@kithrup.COM> Date: 28 Jul 92 14:32:43 Lines: 17 In article <1992Jul27.193757.3628@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: | >2) OSF has licensed Mentat streams for inclusion, not AT&T. The code | > is un-AT&T-encumbered, and runs on many diverse platforms (for | > instance, it also runs on VMS). | | That's nice. They also bought a SysVr3.x license, about three or four years | ago, and the code they are shipping as "OSF/1," for both the macro- and | micro-kernel stuff, still requires a USL source license, if you want source. Try System V.2, not V.3. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting.